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 .
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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 \
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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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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