askance
中文解釋
wordnet sense
Collocation Usage
Collins Definition
Adverb
With an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval,
/əˈskans/,
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With an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval,
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With an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval
- - the reformers looked askance at the mystical tradition
- - a waiter looked askance at Charlie's jeans
Web Definitions:
- (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"
- with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer"
- with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"
- Turned to the side, especially of the eyes; With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion; Sideways; obliquely
- with suspicion, distrustfully
- with a sideways glance.