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单词 to look askew
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to look askew
1. With verbs of seeing, observing, or regarding. Chiefly in to look askew.
a. From the corner of one's eye; obliquely; sideways (in later use sometimes surreptitiously).
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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.
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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.
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