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Definition: Askance |
AskanceAdjective1. (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; "sidelong glances". Adverb1. With suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer". 2. With a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "askance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Askance \A*skance"\, Askant \A*skant"\, adverb [Compare to Dutch schuin, schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Compare to Asquint.]. (references) |
Synonyms: AskanceSynonyms: askant (adj), asquint (adj), sidelong (adj), squint (adj), squint-eyed (adj), squinty (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose; (contempt); look askance, look black upon; look with an evil eye; make a wry face, make a wry mouth at; set one's face against. |
Dislike | Shun, avoid; eschew; withdraw from, shrink from, recoil from; not be able to bear, not be able to abide, not be able to endure; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn up the nose at, look askance at; make a mouth, make a wry face, make a grimace; make faces. |
Dissent | Shake the head, shrug the shoulders; look askance, look askant. |
Fear | Verb: fear, stand in awe of; be afraid; Adjective: have qualms; Noun: apprehend, sit upon thorns, eye askance; distrust; (disbelieve). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Askance |
| English words defined with "askance": askant, asquint ♦ Gley ♦ sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "askance": Limulus. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | They stopped and looked askance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Askance" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Askance" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 55 | 45,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "askance": eye askance ♦ look askance ♦ look askance at ♦ look askance at a suggestion ♦ look askance at smb. ♦ look askance on ♦ look at him askance ♦ look at smb. askance. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
askance | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "askance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | anash (alongside, edgeways, edgewise, laterally, sideward, sidewards, sideways, wide), skiç (askew, rakish, sideways), me dyshim (askant, suspiciously). (various references) | |
Arabic | ريائي (hypocritical), بإرتياب (doubtfully, suspiciously), بشك (suspiciously). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | подозрително (askant, suspiciously), изкосо. (various references) | |
Chinese | 睥 (look askance), 睨 (look askance). (various references) | |
Czech | úkosem (askant). (various references) | |
Dutch | scheelzien (look askance, squint), scheelkýken (look askance, squint), loensen (look askance, squint). (various references) | |
Esperanto | strabi (look askance, squint). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skeita (look askance, squint). (various references) | |
Farsi | چپ چپ (Askew, Awry), کج (Askew, Awry, Crank, Crump, Devious, Gauche, Indirect, Lopsided, Sidelong, Sinister, Slant, Snafu, Thwart, Wry), ازگوشه ء چشم , ازروی سوء ظن , بانگاه رشگ امیز, باچشم حقارت . (various references) | |
Finnish | katsoa karsain silmin (be unfavourably disposed towatowards, look askance, regard with disapproval). (various references) | |
French | loucher (look askance). (various references) | |
German | schief (aslant, awry, cockeyed, crooked, distorted, inappropriate, inclinated, leaning, lopsided, not straight, oblique, scalene, skew, slanting, sloping, sloppily, squint eyed, tilted, worn-down, wry). (various references) | |
Greek | λοξά (bevel, oblique, skew). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בחש" ות (suspiciously). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyanakodva (cagily, suspiciously), ferdén (askew, aslant, aslope, athwart, awry, crookedly, diagonally, on the bias, on the skew, on the slant, slantwise, thwart). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dengan curiga. (various references) | |
Italian | sospettosamente, obliquo (askew, cross, devious, indirect, lopsided, oblique, sidelong, sideward, slanting, sloped, sloping, slopingly, transversal, underhand, wry), obliquamente (athwart, sidelong, slantwise), di traverso (Amiss, askew, athwart, awry, edgeways). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 尻目に懸ける (cast an amorous glance at, look askance), 尻目 (looking down upon or askance at). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しりめにかける (cast an amorous glance at, look askance), しりめ (looking down upon or askance at). (various references) | |
Manx | lieh-scaa (aslant, slantwise). (various references) | |
Norwegian | på skjeve. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | askanceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desconfiadamente, de soslaio (askant, obliquely), de lado (aside, askant, askew, bias, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideways, up). (various references) | |
Romanian | chiorâş (askant, askew, asquint, awry, squint). (various references) | |
Russian | сбоку (sideways), косо (askew, aslant, aslope, asquint, awry, slantwise), искоса (askant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | popreko (abeam, across, athwart, broadways, diagonally), iskosa (asquint). (various references) | |
Spanish | oblicuamente (aslant, athwart, obliquely, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, slantwise). (various references) | |
Swedish | snett (askant, askew, wryly), skevt (askant, askew), åt sidan (apart, aside, sideward, sidewards). (various references) | |
Turkish | yan yan (edgeways, edgewise, sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise), göz ucuyla, şüphe ile. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скоса (askew), криво (askew), косо (askew, aslant, aslope, athwart, awry, obliquely, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, slant, slantwise, splay). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | về một bên (apart, aside, askant, one-sided, sideways, sidewise), ngờ vực (askant, defiant, doubtful, dubitative, mistrustful). (various references) | |
Welsh | yn llygatraws, yn gam. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lima, limo, limum, quam. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | ase. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Askance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akinci, ascance, askanse, askence, asknance, Assface, assoance, Casmance, Haskayne, Maslanka, Samange, skance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "askance" (pronounced uska"ns) |
| 3 | -a" n s | advance, chance, dance, enhance, expanse, finance, glance, Hance, lance, Nance, prance, Rance, refinance, romance, stance, trance. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-k-n-s" | |
-2 letters: acnes, ansae, cakes, canes, kanas, kanes, necks, scena, skean, snack, snake, sneak, sneck. | |
-3 letters: aces, acne, anas, anes, ansa, asea, cake, cane, cans, casa, case, cask, kaas, kaes, kana, kane, keas, kens, neck, sack, sake, sane, sank, scan. | |
-4 letters: aas, ace, ana, ane, ask, can, ens, kae, kas, kea, ken, nae, sac, sae. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-k-n-s" | |
+1 letter: pancakes. | |
+2 letters: crankcase, icekhanas, ransacked, ransacker. | |
+3 letters: blacksnake, canebrakes, canvaslike, crankcases, jackanapes, kalanchoes, knapsacked, ransackers. | |
+4 letters: backhanders, blacksnakes, caretakings, pacemakings. | |
+5 letters: backwardness, blackhanders, cantankerous, jackanapeses, meatpackings, peacemakings, racewalkings, safecracking, spacewalking. | |
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