What's the difference between askance and suspiciously?

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.

Suspiciously


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
  • (2) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
  • (3) Spain's tax office is conveniently, some could say suspiciously, underfunded.
  • (4) Early biopsy of suspicious lesions followed by amputation of the digit in those proving positive is the treatment of choice.
  • (5) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
  • (6) Two infants with previously abnormal or suspicious FAT, OCT, and intrapartum fetal heart tracings were stillborn.
  • (7) April 17, 2013 The third floor isn't doing so well either: Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) Capitol police email Senate offices: Police "are responding to a suspicious envelope on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building."
  • (8) Thirty-six patients underwent biopsy of clinically suspicious lesions of the mucosa of the upper aerodigestive tract.
  • (9) Management of female patients includes careful inspection of the vulva with each full-skin or gynecologic examination, followed by biopsy of any suspicious lesion.
  • (10) Nearly 50% showed up with involvement of fixated and suspicious lymphnodes.
  • (11) One case classified as suspicious for malignancy by cytologic examination could be identified as cirrhotic nodule by further investigations.
  • (12) An area of translucence around a dense zone, appearing more clearly with traction, is suspicious.
  • (13) Bronchoscopic examination revealed endobronchial tumor or suspicious lesion in 63.2 percent cases.
  • (14) inflammation or regeneration) a "suspicious" cervical smear with a polyploid DNA-distribution pattern may reverse to normal cervical epithelium after normal conditions are restored.
  • (15) The standards undergirding a suspicious activity report are defined as: " Observed behavior reasonably indicative of preoperational planning related to terrorism or other criminal activity ."
  • (16) The patient's sexual partner was examined colposcopically, and no suspicious lesions were seen.
  • (17) The midwife in the maternity unit can look at the tracing and ask the patient to come if the tracing is insufficient or suspicious.
  • (18) But Cleveland city hall released out a statement that read: "Media reports of multiple calls to the Cleveland police reporting suspicious activity and the mistreatment of women at 2207 Seymour are false."
  • (19) I’m desperately sorry, says head who hired paedophile William Vahey Read more Investigators in the UK have already established that while Vahey was teaching in London from 2009 to 2013, teachers on four different trips reported his suspicious behaviour with pupils to the school.
  • (20) According to Sussex police, explosives experts investigated what was initially deemed a suspicious item discarded by the man and carried out a small controlled explosion.

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