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"

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːns

Adverb

1. sideways; obliquely
2. With disapproval, skepticism, or disdain.
   • The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him 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