askance

«askance» in Mova's school dictionary: to look at them with doubt, suspicion or disapproval — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

1) To look askance at something or someone is to look at them with doubt, suspicion or disapproval. tree →

2) (old) Askance means sideways, out of the corner of your eye. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories and formal writing: «the neighbours looked askance at Toad's new motor car» means they did not approve. It shows that people doubt or distrust something without saying so.

examples

• The old ladies looked askance at the noisy children. tree →
• The teacher looked askance at his excuse. tree →
• Badger looked askance at Toad's new hobby. tree →
• People looked askance at the strange visitor. tree →
• She glanced askance at the plate of snails. tree →
• The cat eyed the dog askance. tree →

note

Almost always in «look askance at». Pronounced a-SKANSS. Formal and literary.

In the corpora

• Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «askance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.