[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

askance \askance"\, askant \askant"\, adv. cf. d. schuin,
   schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. cf.
   asquint.
   sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy,
   or suspicion.
   1913 webster

         they dart away; they wheel askance.      --beattie.
   1913 webster

         my palfrey eyed them askance.            --landor.
   1913 webster

         both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
                                                  --gladstone.
   1913 webster
see also:
asquint 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

askance \askance"\, v. t.
   to turn aside. poet.
   1913 webster

         o, how are they wrapped in with infamies
         that from their own misdeeds askance their eyes
                                                  --shak.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

askance
     adj : 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" syn: askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed,
            squinty, sidelong
     adv 1: 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"
see also:
askant asquint squint squint-eyed squinty sidelong 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

41 moby thesaurus words for "askance":
   aside, askant, askew, asquint, awry, broadside, broadside on, cam,
   captiously, censoriously, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed, crabwise,
   critically, crookedly, cynically, disapprovingly, distrustfully,
   doubtfully, doubtingly, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, glancingly,
   laterad, laterally, on its side, on the beam, reproachfully,
   right and left, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway,
   sideways, sidewise, sidling, skeptically, suspiciously,
   unfavorably

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