Askance
A·skance
Askance
adv.
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Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.
They dart away; they wheel askance.
My palfrey eyed them askance.
Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
Askance
v. t.
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To turn aside. [Poet.]
O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!