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askance - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Adverb

askance (not comparable)

• (of a look or glance) With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.
  • ✤ The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.
  • ✤ The scandal of opposition died down, and the stone-carver himself, though the town-folk continued to eye him askance, was able to secure other work through the favor of discriminating patrons.¹
  • ✤ Both […] were viewed askance by authority.²
  • ✤ My palfrey eyed them askance.³
  • ✤ Even the Democrat voters that might look askance at a Green Party candidate, I want you guys to consider this.⁴
• Sideways; obliquely.
  • ✤ I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes.⁵
  • ✤ …the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemed to be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces.⁶

Adjective

askance (not comparable)

• Turned to the side, especially of the eyes.
  • ✤ My first thought was, he lied in every word,
    That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
    Askance to watch the working of his lie⁷

Verb

askance (third-person singular simple present askances, present participle askancing, simple past and past participle askanced)

• (rare, transitive) To look at (someone or something) with a sideways glance.
  • ✤ Bowed heads, Aunt Ellen’s, Aunt Laura’s, her sister’s — bowed but askancing her yellow dress — yes, yellow, golden yellow, hue of sun and life, Dad’s favorite, to see him off on this, his greatest journey.⁸
  • ✤ “My dear sir,” said Hube in an authoritative manner to the receptionist askancing Thales, “first of all, we aren’t tourists. Secondly, this isn’t a rat, this is the present embodiment of the spiritual leader of millions of people in India […]⁹
• (rare, transitive) To turn (one’s eye or gaze) to the side.
  • ✤ The pope askanced his eye at Michael with displeasure, and after a short pause saluted him, “Instead of your coming to us, you seem to have expected that we should attend upon you.”¹⁰

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /əˈskæns/, /əˈskɑːns/
• (US) IPA: /əˈskæns/
• Audio (US): 🔊
• Rhymes: -ɑːns, -æns

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1932, Clark Ashton Smith, The Maker of Gargoyles: ↩

2. 1875, William Ewart Gladstone, The Church of England and Ritualism: ↩

3. 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, volume III, Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney: ↩

4. 2026 April 22, Nathan J. Robinson, Butch Ware, “The Green Party’s Butch Ware: “I Love a Good Fight””, in Current Affairs ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 23 April 2026: ↩

5. 1896, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The Island of Doctor Moreau: ↩

6. 1878, Henry James, chapter 1, in The Europeans: ↩

7. 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came: ↩

8. 1953, Lowry Charles Wimberly, Prairie Schooner, volume 27, page 406: ↩

9. 1997, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang, page 185: ↩

10. 1826, William Hone, The Every Day Book, Or, A Guide to the Year: ↩

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