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Idioms and Phrases
View with mistrust, as in They looked askance at him when he said he'd just made a million in the stock market . The precise feeling conveyed by this expression has varied since it was first used in the 1500s, from envy to contempt to suspicion, although the literal meaning was “look obliquely, with a side glance.” The present sense dates from about 1800. Also see look sideways .Discover More
Example Sentences
Her gay fans will look askance and move on around Streisand.
Americans would look askance if Afghans mimicked their own banana-republic justice.
Nobis and Franti alone look askance at him, and Votini darts envy from his eyes; but he does not even perceive it.
We look askance at our friends, and make the task of comfort doubly hard for those that remain true.
“Business” received at times a look askance: spiritual edification excited desire, and stimulated expression.
Of course Enistor did not wish to injure his daughter in any way at which the world would look askance.
They did not look askance at such a controversial subject, having published the Fowler family's phrenological books.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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