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askance
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    Beside me, Tariq looks askance at Keenan.†  (source)
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    She suspects the motives of all mainlanders, looks askance at their apparent acts of goodwill.†  (source)
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    No one noticed the ghost, but the locals looked askance at Nico.†  (source)
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    Seni answered the door and looked askance at him.†  (source)
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    The hospital looked at him askance, insulted him with ridiculous questions, and basically told him to fend for himself.†  (source)
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    Sandwiched between me and Mary, he talked and smiled at her, and there was something about the sight of him being briefly happy that repelled those people who might otherwise have looked at him askance, or offered pitying glances.†  (source)
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    "White trousers," say I, "but a girl like that—" We look askance at one another.†  (source)
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    An English party had just then come from the waterfront, made for a table near us, and then suddenly moved to the other side, where they looked askance at us and talked with their heads close together.†  (source)
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    He did not know that he had taken nearly ten years to arrive, for it never occurred to him that his neighbors had eyed him askance at first.†  (source)
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    Anne set the card up against the jugful of apple blossoms she had brought in to decorate the dinner-table—Marilla had eyed that decoration askance, but had said nothing—propped her chin on her hands, and fell to studying it intently for several silent minutes.†  (source)
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    "Where," asked he, with a look askance at them—for it was the clergyman's peculiarity that he seldom, now-a-days, looked straight forth at any object, whether human or inanimate, "where, my kind doctor, did you gather those herbs, with such a dark, flabby leaf?"†  (source)
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    The soft thing looked askance through the window: he possessed the power to depart as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.†  (source)
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    Dayna looked askance at Hillary, then back to Mae.†  (source)
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