askance[adverb]Synonyms: awry, askant, askew, cam, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed, crookedly, distrustfully, doubtfully, mistrustfully, skeptically, suspiciously
Antonyms: directly
Contrasted words: approvingly, favorably
Related Words: captiously,
critically,
cynically,
doubtingly,
deprecatingly,
depreciatively,
disparagingly [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
a‧skance /əˈskæns, əˈskɑːns $ əˈskæns/
adverb[
Date: 1400-1500;
Origin: Perhaps from Italian a scancio 'across']
look askance (at somebody/something) if you look askance at someone or something, you do not approve of them or think they are good:
A waiter looked askance at Ellis’s jeans. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲