Askance - definition of askance by The Free Dictionary askance - (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"
askance adverb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . Definition of askance adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary to look at or react to somebody something in a critical way or in a way that shows you do not trust or believe them The opposition party looked askance at most of the government’s proposed policies She looked askance at him when he began to eat before everybody else
Askance - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com You may have trouble watching a gory horror movie, but you also won't be able to look away Find a happy medium by looking askance, or subtly out of the corner of your eye First used in the 1500's, no one is quite sure where the cockeyed, slanting adverb askance came from