单词 | to look askew |
释义 | > as lemmasto look askew 1. With verbs of seeing, observing, or regarding. Chiefly in to look askew. extracted from askewadv.n.adj. a. From the corner of one's eye; obliquely; sideways (in later use sometimes surreptitiously). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by facial expression snurtc1440 to look askew1538 scance1611 to fall a lip of contempta1616 flurn1656 sneer1734 to curl the lip1816 snigger1823 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look sideways schule?c1225 to look asidec1230 bagge1369 gogglec1380 to look awryc1400 slizec1400 leer1530 to look askew1538 skew1570 gloat1576 to glance one's eye, look1590 squean1608 squinny1608 squint1610 sken1611 sleer1680 glime1684 skime1691 side-glance1799 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Limis oculis spectare, to loke wantonly on the one syde, to cast a wanton eie, to loke a skewe. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 12v Hir lyppes were pale, hir cheekes were wan... She lookad eke a skiew [1567 a skew]. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. 448 His fiery eies..glared bright and wyde, Glauncing askew, as if his enemies He scorned in his ouerweening pryde. View more context for this quotation a1637 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor (rev. ed.) v. i, in Wks. (1640) I. 135 Let her fleer, and look a scew [1600, 1616 a skaunce], and hide her Teeth with her Fan. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 427/1 Squint Eyed, to sken or look awry, to see askew, or asslent. 1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. ii. x. 272 Her large blue Eyes..would have lost all their Amiableness, and have looked askew an hundred ways at once. 1793 Town & Country Mag. Nov. 518/2 Nature's operations tend To some design, some certain end,..Yet what can be her secret view In forming some [sc. eyes] to look askew. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. x. 244 The boy, looking askew at him with his sharp grey eyes. 1899 B. Capes Lady of Darkness xix. 156 He paused a moment, glancing askew at his companion. 1936 J. G. Frazer Aftermath: Suppl. Golden Bough i. 56 By turning his eyes to right and left the father will, through contagious magic, cause the child to look askew. 1996 C. D. Luce Night Game i. 8 Her wide-eyed gaze did not leave his until he reached her side, at which time she glanced askew at something on the nightstand. b. figurative. With disdain, contempt, or suspicion. Chiefly with on, †upon, or at. ΚΠ 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians xxxii. 239 The faythfull are despized folke, men vouchsafe not too looke vpon them but a skew. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 105v He began to looke askewe vpon Camilla. 1636 T. Heywood Challenge for Beautie ii. sig. C4 All I meete..looke askue, and point, and laugh at mee. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 25 Aug. (1970) II. 161 My Lady Batten and her daughter to look something askew upon my wife, because my wife..is not sollicitous for their acquaintance. 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials I. xxiii. 167 For some expressions..that looked askew upon the King's supremacy..he was laid in hold. 1792 J. Wolcot Remonstrance (new ed.) 23 There are, who on my verses look askew, And call my lyric lucubrations stuff. 1842 R. H. Barham Nell Cook!! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 124 But Nelly Cook askew did look. 1871 E. Tabor Diary of Novelist 141 And Jane Mead, I've seen her look askew at my old black shawl ever since she got that bran-new cloak of hers. 1874 Westm. Rev. July 108/2 Mr Jenkins glances somewhat askew at England. 1996 K. Nielsen Naturalism without Found. iii. x. 300 Postmodernists..have also..looked askew at the growth of the authority of science in modem cultures. 2001 Daily Deal (N.Y.) (Nexis) 19 Apr. (Venture Capital section) While DeveloGen isn't betting on stock market funding, the company won't look askew at a public offering if valuations improve. < as lemmas |
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