All 3 Uses of
askance
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- Better so, than live to be disgraced and looked askance at.†
Book 3 *
- On this Helen, daughter of aegis-bearing Jove, sat down, and with eyes askance began to upbraid her husband.†
Book 3
- For prayers are as daughters to great Jove; halt, wrinkled, with eyes askance, they follow in the footsteps of sin, who, being fierce and fleet of foot, leaves them far behind him, and ever baneful to mankind outstrips them even to the ends of the world; but nevertheless the prayers come hobbling and healing after.†
Book 9
Definition:
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(askance) with disapproval, distrust, or suspicion
or:
directed to one side -- especially a sideways glance