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With a sideways look
Answer for the clue "With a sideways look ", 7 letters:
askance
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Word definitions for askance in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "sideways, asquint," of obscure origin. OED has separate listings for askance and obsolete Middle English askance(s) and no indication of a connection, but Barnhart and others derive the newer word from the older one. The Middle English word, recorded ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB look ▪ No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy. ▪ Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on. ▪ The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding ...
Usage examples of askance.
The carles looked askance at one another, but straightway opened the gates, and Ralph and his company went forth, and abode the new-comers on a little green mound half a bowshot from the Castle.
Yet he was at ease while Anguls chewed a fingernail and looked at him askance and the female blinked at him through force-grown lashes of half an inch length.
Working through wicked airs and deadly dews That make the laden robber grin askance At the good places in his black romance, And the poor, loitering harlot rather choose Go pinched and pined to bed Than lurk and shiver and curse her wretched way From arch to arch, scouting some threepenny prey.
He stopped abruptly, and Gascoyne, looking askance at him, saw that his eyes were full of tears, whereupon he turned his looks away again quickly, and fell to shooting pebbles out through the open window with his finger and thumb.
One of the Russians looked askance at me, and said there was no doubt about it, as a ukase had been published ordering that the bridge should be built.
Andres Sereno, President of the island country of Kadeira, commander in chief of its army and navy, both titles earned by sweat and blood and viewed askance by an American government that had never been quite sure if he was enemy, friend, or merely neutral.
She looked at Kithra askance, wondering just what her attack on Niggen had unleased on this normally tranquil household.
Bertrand the favourite eyed him askance, mistrusting and disliking him for his association with Andreas.
He stopped short, shrugged his shoulders perplexedly, waved his hand, and again began to pace the sidewalk, looking at Foma askance.
Every askance look, every gaze, every shout, sudden flurry of hooves or boots, every bang or hiss of a constructs pistons is a moment of fear.
The child curtsied and looked askance at her hands with no skirts to spread.
One of the Russians looked askance at me, and said there was no doubt about it, as a ukase had been published ordering that the bridge should be built.
As it is, some may look askance that our prince chooses to go riding with a foreign noble and his bodyguard on such an important day in his life.
A second major reason was that any nonscholarly writing was looked upon as rather frivolous, and a decent person guilty of concocting such material might well be looked upon askance by society, and considered as having lost caste.
I knew Danny broke the regulations by backing horses, but from what he said in the changing room, it was only in amounts of five and ten pounds, which would cause few trainers to look askance at him.