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Askance
Definition:
(adv.) Alt. of Askant
(v. t.) To turn aside.
Example Sentences:
(1) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
(2) Monogenic proposals for classifying Potyviridae should also be viewed askance until their practical value in agricultural settings can be demonstrated.
(3) The creditors point to some of Europe’s hardest-hit nations, the likes of Portugal and Ireland, whose voters have endured their own austerity and who would look askance if Greece were now let off the hook.
(4) I'd normally look askance at any place that dubs itself a "riviera" that isn't due south of 45 degrees latitude.
(5) With the north-east hit hard by economic stagnation and central government funding for councils squeezed, the local authority is looking increasingly askance at a system that takes in £62m of public funding a year, while fares rise and operators reap large profits.
(6) Those here who have witnessed the chaos in Whitehall and Westminster these past four years may look askance at the notion that the pieces of the jigsaw are being methodically assembled, but in Davos this will undoubtedly play well.
(7) Many struggling newspaper groups would not look askance at an offer to become such a bauble in such difficult times and rumours still flourish that Lebedev could buy the Independent.
(8) Not that it always works in their favour – by the mid-90s, Merchant-Ivory had became something of an inverse snobbery insult, signifying something stuffy and dull, all starched waistcoats and askance glances across the class divide, of interest only to Laura Ashley fans.
(9) When I did say sorry, the woman looked at me askance.
(10) The rest of us might look askance at this assumption, requiring as it does, for example, the acceptance that the unqualified George Osborne is the man most capable of steering the British economy through perilous waters.
(11) Out canvassing recently, a man looked askance at her campaign material.
(12) Bryant said: "People will certainly look askance at him.
(13) The tacitly state-sanctioned venting of spleen against Japan certainly came easily to a lot of Chinese, many raised since childhood to look askance at things Japanese.
(14) If you wait until your child is about to go to school you should expect your dentist to look askance – NHS guidelines say that, at the very least, children should have at least one visit to the dentist before the age of two.
(15) On 19 September, booths in this part of the electorate are expected to swing towards Labor again, as its 62,000 residents look askance at Abbott’s claim that there’s nothing more Perth than the SAS and view anyone who came from as far away as Fremantle as a foreigner.
(16) Passon has a pet theory – "it's so crackpot" – that there might be a genetic basis for the creativity and askance perspective often attributed to gay people throughout history.
(17) While the Obama administration increasingly looks askance at Netanyahu, there is still a strong bipartisan consensus for American support of Israel.
(18) But when the US talks about deploying B52 nuclear-capable bombers to the north-south border, importing an advanced missile shield into South Korea and emphasising strong military ties with Japan, as it did last week, China, understandably, looks askance.
(19) Even Jacob Rees-Mogg, the poshest man in the Commons and usually a willing Sergeant Wilson, who had been lying languidly on the backbenches with his feet in the air, reflecting on how tricky it was to get your shoes cleaned now that the government's long-term economic plan had got so many people back into work, looked askance at this.
(20) The Irish, drifting back, might have looked askance at all the European Jews.