| Pronunciation: | | u'skwint
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| | Definition: | | [adj] (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances" |
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| | Synonyms: | | askance, askant, indirect, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \A*squint"\, adv. [Cf. {Askant}, {Squint}.]
With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line
of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to
look asquint.
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