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Askance; Askant
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.