Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sidewise; askance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective toward the side, rather than directly ahead; -- used of a glance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective dated
Aslant , orsloping . - adverb dated
Aslant , oraskance , orsideways
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
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Examples
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At all the more public pumps there is much cooling of bare feet, together with much bubbling and gurgling of drinking with hand to spout on the part of these Bedouins; the Cloisterham police meanwhile looking askant from their beats with suspicion, and manifest impatience that the intruders should depart from within the civic bounds, and once more fry themselves on the simmering high – roads.
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After a few more puffs at his pipe, the trooper looks down askant at the little man, and the little man winks up at the trooper.
Bleak House 2007
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‘Forty – two,’ replied the driver, eyeing him askant.
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STORY replied, "Of course they all reject you," STORY looked at TRUTH, eyes a bit askant.
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STORY replied, "Of course they all reject you," STORY looked at TRUTH, eyes a bit askant.
Printing: Where the Experts in the Worlds of Story Meet 2006
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His body stretched, it strained upward and askant in a little epiphany of bright expectation.
THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001
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His body stretched, it strained upward and askant in a little epiphany of bright expectation.
THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001
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His body stretched, it strained upward and askant in a little epiphany of bright expectation.
THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001
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His body stretched, it strained upward and askant in a little epiphany of bright expectation.
THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001
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The ass stopped munching, and looked askant at the Squire.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
yarb commented on the word askant
He went to a cemetary. Old, askant, tall grass growing, worn-out stones.
- Russell Hoban, Kleinzeit
June 20, 2008