单词	askance
释义	askancea‧skance /əˈskæns, əˈskɑːns $ əˈskæns/ adverb Word Origin WORD ORIGINaskance Origin: 1400-1500 Perhaps from Italian a scancio ‘across’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS If a student comes to me with a well-constructed play nowadays, I look a little askance at it. It often looked askance at the mainland. No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy. Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on. The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper. They came in diffidently, nodded respectfully to Wilcox, and looked askance at Robyn. Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► look · No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy.· Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on.· The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.· It often looked askance at the mainland.· Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► look askance (at somebody/something) It often looked askance at the mainland. No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy. Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on. The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper. Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme. look askance (at somebody/something) if you look askance at someone or something, you do not approve of them or think they are good:  A waiter looked askance at Ellis’s jeans.
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