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askance

[ uh-skans ]

adverb

  1. with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval:

    He looked askance at my offer.

    Synonyms: suspiciously, skeptically

  2. with a side glance; sidewise; obliquely.


askance

/ əˈskænt; əˈskæns /

adverb

  1. with an oblique glance
  2. with doubt or mistrust
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Word History and Origins

Origin of askance1

First recorded in 1520–30; earlier a scanche, a sca(u)nce; of obscure origin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of askance1

C16: of unknown origin
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Idioms and Phrases

see look askance .
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Example Sentences

Establishment figures look a bit askance at the Kentucky senator because of his isolationist roots.

Her gay fans will look askance and move on around Streisand.

Short sellers—investors who look for overvalued stock they hope will go down—have also looked askance at SodaStream.

They'd look awfully askance at anything like this happening five or whatever weeks before an election.

To hear her friends tell it, she is a bit like one of the fearsome middle-school girls who was looking askance at Swift.

He eyed Bumble askance as he entered, but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation.

And the conversation then broke down, and the brothers looked askance at one another in silence.

I thought they looked at me askance, and I made sure that the more superstitious crossed themselves on my approach.

We crave and struggle for individuality; here was mine restored to me, and I looked at it askance.

Many shrugged their shoulders, while Capitan Toringoy merely looked askance at Isagani.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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