| 单词 | askance |
| 释义 | askance (once / 3136 pages) advadj You may have trouble looking directly at the human specimens onstage at the freak show, but you also won't be able to look away. Find a happy medium by looking askance, or subtly out of the corner of your eye. First used in the 1500's, no one is quite sure where the cockeyed, slanting adverb askance came from. Some people suspect that it evolved from the Latin a scancio, meaning “obliquely, slantingly,” while others argue that it’s just a variant of the word askew. How fitting for a word that describes a suspicious or distrusting manner of looking that we can't trace its etymology with any surety. WORD FAMILYaskance USAGE EXAMPLESHardly anyone looked askance at his passion for guns and for training youths in paramilitary tactics. New York Times(Dec 24, 2016) However, other provinces would surely look askance if Saskatchewan were seen to be free-riding on their sacrifices. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) Many Democrats look askance at Keith Ellison, the sudden shooting star of the party’s leadership, as too different, too progressive and feisty. The Guardian(Nov 23, 2016) 1adv with suspicion or disapproval he looked askance at the offer 2adv with a side or oblique glance did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes 3adj (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen Syn askant, asquint, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty indirect not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination |
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