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Definition

with disapproval, distrust, or suspicion

or:

directed to one side — especially a sideways glance

He looked askance at the offer.

askance = with disapproval, distrust, or suspicion

But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a look askance—
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.
Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

askance = with distrust or suspicion

Her beautiful eyes glanced askance at her husband's face...
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Danglars looked at him askance, as though to ascertain whether he spoke seriously.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
A passing septon was looking at her askance.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
Accordingly, Olivier le Mauvais remained motionless, sulking at the king, and glancing askance at Jacques Coictier.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
He looked askance at my luggage-less state, but then shrugged, not caring enough to ask.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
Javert gazed askance at this body, and, profoundly calm, said in a low tone: "It strikes me that I know that girl."
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The turnkey looked askance at her all the while, but never spoke.
George Eliot -- Adam Bede
Are you going to stop wearing what all the other women wear—and be looked at askance?
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
Every householder looked askance at such a woman and child inquiring for accommodation in the gloom.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
Carrie looked at him askance, half-suspicious of an appeal.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
The woman—for it was a woman—approached with her face askance, as if looking earnestly on all sides of her.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
For all that he was displeased enough, looked at me askance, and grumbled when he looked.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
Osmond looked at him a moment askance.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
She suspects the motives of all mainlanders, looks askance at their apparent acts of goodwill.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
She appears to be at ease with the comparison, looking comically askance at Gogol.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
And so the king askance came to Sir Tristram, to comfort him as he lay sick in his bed.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I
He eyed Bumble askance, as he entered, but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
Eugene looked askance at a flower seller: where had the seasons gone?
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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