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askance 音标拼音: [əsk'æns]
ad. 斜视地 斜视地 askance adv 1: with suspicion or disapproval; " he looked askance at the offer" 2: with a side or oblique glance; " did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes" adj 1: ( used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; " her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; " sidelong glances" [ synonym: { askance}, { askant}, { asquint}, { squint}, { squint- eyed}, { squinty}, { sidelong}] Askance \ A* skance"\, Askant \ A* skant"\, adv. [ Cf. D. schuin, schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Cf. { Asquint}.] Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. [ 1913 Webster] They dart away; they wheel askance. -- Beattie. [ 1913 Webster] My palfrey eyed them askance. -- Landor. [ 1913 Webster] Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. -- Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster]
Askance \ A* skance"\, v. t. To turn aside. [ Poet.] [ 1913 Webster] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 41 Moby Thesaurus words for " askance": aside, askant, askew, asquint, awry, broadside, broadside on, cam, captiously, censoriously, cock- a- hoop, cockeyed, crabwise, critically, crookedly, cynically, disapprovingly, distrustfully, doubtfully, doubtingly, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, glancingly, laterad, laterally, on its side, on the beam, reproachfully, right and left, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidling, skeptically, suspiciously, unfavorably
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