All 3 Uses of
askance
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- He looked askance and rather indignantly at Raskolnikov; he was so very badly dressed, and in spite of his humiliating position, his bearing was by no means in keeping with his clothes.†
Chpt 2.1askance = with disapproval or distrust; or directed to one side
- The elder workman looked at him askance.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- "It is as though they were afraid of me," Raskolnikov was thinking to himself, looking askance at his mother and sister.†
Chpt 3.3
Definition:
with disapproval, distrust, or suspicion
or:
directed to one side -- especially a sideways glance
or:
directed to one side -- especially a sideways glance