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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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askant
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: askance, asquint, squint, squint-eyed,
squinty, sidelong]