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# askance

«askance» in Mova's school dictionary: **to look at them with doubt, suspicion or disapproval** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) To look askance at something or someone is to look at them with doubt, suspicion or disapproval. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/askance/#m1)

2) (old) Askance means sideways, out of the corner of your eye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/askance/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories and formal writing: «the neighbours looked askance at Toad's new motor car» means they did not approve. It shows that people doubt or distrust something without saying so.

### examples

- The old ladies looked askance at the noisy children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/askance/#x1)
- The teacher looked askance at his excuse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/askance/#x2)
- Badger looked askance at Toad's new hobby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/askance/#x3)
- People looked askance at the strange visitor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/askance/#x4)
- She glanced askance at the plate of snails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/askance/#x5)
- The cat eyed the dog askance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/askance/#x6)

### note

Almost always in «look askance at». Pronounced a-SKANSS. Formal and literary.

### In the corpora

- [Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1106/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «askance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/askance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.