askance
[adverb]
Synonyms: awry, askant, askew, cam, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed, crookedly, distrustfully, doubtfully, mistrustfully, skeptically, suspiciously

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Antonyms: directly
Contrasted words: approvingly, favorably
Related Words: captiously, critically, cynically, doubtingly, deprecatingly, depreciatively, disparagingly

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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.

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