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"