askance
/əˈskans
/ /əˈskɑːns /(also askant /əˈskant/ /əˈskɑːnt/)
adverb
With an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval: the reformers looked askance at the mystical tradition a waiter looked askance at his jeans...
- Bonachela knows that there are people in contemporary dance who look askance at his commercial work.
- Canadians might look askance at this, given their jaundiced attitude towards many things American.
- If people with suspiciously orange tans are to be looked at askance, so, too, are suspiciously orange fish.
Synonyms
suspiciously, with suspicion, sceptically, with misgivings, cynically, mistrustfully, distrustfully, with distrust, doubtfully, dubiously, with doubt;
disapprovingly, with disapproval, with disfavour, contemptuously, scornfully, disdainfully;
suspect, mistrust, distrust;
disapprove of, frown on, be hostile towards
Origin
Late 15th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- pick a lock
- pick and choose
- pick-and-mix
- pick-and-pick
- pick-and-roll
- pickaninny
- pickaninny kaya
- pickax
- pickaxe
- Pick body
- pickbrain
- smooth-bore
- smoother
- smooth-faced
- smooth hound
- smoothie
- smoothing iron
- smoothing plane
- smoothish
- smoothly
- smooth muscle
- smoothness
- smooth newt
- smooth-running
- smooth-shaven