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 askance /əˈskæn(t)s/
 (ad.)斜視地

 A·skance A·skant adv.  Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.
    They dart away; they wheel askance.   --Beattie.
    My palfrey eyed them askance.   --Landor.
    Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.   --Gladstone.
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 A·skance, v. t. To turn aside. [Poet.]
 O, how are they wrapped in with infamies
 That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!   --Shak.
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 askance
      adj : (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: askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed,
             squinty, sidelong]
      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"