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askance

English

  1. 🔊 (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”
  2. 🔊 with a side or oblique glance
    “did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes”
  3. 🔊 with suspicion or disapproval
    “he looked askance at the offer”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 con recelo askance
  2. 🔊 de soslayo askance, sideways
  3. 🔊 de reojo askance, out of the corner of one's eye

Similar words

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