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askance   (TTS Sound)

The adj askance has 1 sense

• askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong -- ((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")

The adv askance has 2 senses

• askance -- (with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer")


• askance -- (with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes")