asquint

[ uh-skwint ]

adverb

1. with an oblique glance or squint; askance; slyly; dubiously.

asquint

/ əˈskwɪnt /

adverb

1. postpositive with a glance from the corner of the eye, esp a furtive one

Word History and Origins

Origin of asquint¹

1200–50; Middle English, equivalent to a- a- ¹ + squint, of uncertain origin

Word History and Origins

Origin of asquint¹

C13: perhaps from Dutch schuinte slant, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

Marcy Borders was a 28-year-old Bank of America worker when the photograph of her staring into the lens with her eyes asquint and her mouth agape was taken.

From The Guardian

Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.

From Project Gutenberg

Asquint, a-skwint′, adv. and adj. towards the corner of the eye: obliquely.

From Project Gutenberg

Very welcome were the spacious yards and hospitable door-knockers on those ancestral mansions, fast disappearing from our landscape, supplanted by edifices and surroundings more showy and pretentious; yet, with all their costliness, looking somewhat asquint on the visitor, as if questioning his right to enter them; and, when admitted, seem unfamiliar, solitary, desolate, with their elaborate decorations and furnishings.

From Project Gutenberg

The song had skinny, black-clad Oliver Sim singing almost under his breath without his bass guitar, writhing like a sexy Gollum and seemingly fully zoned out, mumbling about desire and fantasy with hair blown back and eyes asquint.

From Seattle Times