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askance
(encz) | askance,nedůvěřivě Zdeněk Brož |
Askance
(gcide) | 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.
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They dart away; they wheel askance. --Beattie.
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My palfrey eyed them askance. --Landor.
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Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
--Gladstone.
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Askance
(gcide) | Askance \A*skance"\, v. t.
To turn aside. [Poet.]
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O, how are they wrapped in with infamies
That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!
--Shak.
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askance
(wn) | 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" [syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint,
squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong] |
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askance
(encz) | askance,nedůvěřivě Zdeněk Brož |
look askance
(encz) | look askance,dívat se nedůvěřivě [fráz.] at - na něco/někoho Pino |
askance
(wn) | 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" [syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint,
squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong] |
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