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Answer for the clue "Sideways ", 6 letters:
askant
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Word definitions for askant in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
askant \askant\ adj. 1. toward the side, rather than directly ahead; -- used of a glance. Syn: askance, sidelong.
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Word definitions in WordNet
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: askance , asquint , squint , squint-eyed , squinty , sidelong ]
Usage examples of askant.
The eyes are said "to be turned askant," or "to waver from side to side," or "the eyelids to be lowered and partly closed.
His face now became pale, his arms dropped to his sides, his mouth and eyes were widely opened, and again surveying the tree, he looked askant at Mr.
Scott, much more plainly by the head being averted or bent down, with the eyes wavering or turned askant, than by any change of colour in the skin.
An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present, so that he almost invariably casts down his eyes or looks askant.
Kei said, looking askant at Skal, who perched glowering on a boulder a body length above, "we must find the others and see if the flek have returned.
Oh, it was a pretty sight to see this modest young creature, little more than a child herself, anticipating maternity, but blushing every now and then, and looking askant at her lord and master.
His hard leftward eye had view of her askant, if he cared to see how she bore the trial.
After a few more puffs at his pipe, the trooper looks down askant at the little man, and the little man winks up at the trooper.