单词 | with eye askance |
释义 | > as lemmaswith eye askance with eye askance and variants: with a sideways (sometimes surreptitious) glance; with a suspicious or disapproving look; (now usually) with averted eyes. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [adverb] > directed sideways askant1610 with eye askance1667 with eye askant1753 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 149 Whom the grand foe with scornful eye askance Thus answerd. View more context for this quotation 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xiv. 54 None there with Eye askance my Pleasures views. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 182 With eye askance I view the muscular proportioned limb Transformed to a lean shank. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 144 Spies with eye askance, Pretended heretics who worm the soul. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vi. i. 15 A woman who was loving.., not giving them Judas-kisses with eyes askance on their welcome defects. 1902 Scribner's Mag. June 755/1 Men forgot..the kindling touch of warm hands, and stood apart with eyes askance. 2004 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 13 May (Queue section) c13 A dishevelled group who like to pose for pictures with eyes askance. < as lemmas |
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