4 uses
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Definition
with disapproval, distrust, or suspicion
or:
directed to one side — especially a sideways glance
or:
directed to one side — especially a sideways glance
- Sargent peered askance through his slanted glasses.Episode 2 — Nestor (32% in)
- He smiled, glancing askance at her mocking eyes.Episode 4 — Calypso (62% in)
- Miss Douce halfstood to see her skin askance in the barmirror gildedlettered where hock and claret glasses shimmered and in their midst a shell.Episode 11 — Sirens (7% in)
- Bloom askance over liverless saw.Episode 11 — Sirens (46% in)
There are no more uses of "askance" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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