askance
/əˈskæns/
adverb
- With suspicion, disapproval, or distrust.
- The teacher looked askance at the student who was chewing gum in class.
- Many neighbors viewed the new construction project askance, worried it would ruin the quiet street.
- She glanced askance at the strange package left on her doorstep.
- With a sideways or oblique glance.
- He looked askance at the painting, tilting his head to see it from a different angle.
- The cat watched the bird askance, one eye half-closed.
- She peered askance at the tiny text, trying to make out the words.
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