How to Use askance in a Sentence

askance

adverb
Definition of askancenext
Synonyms for askancenext
  • And nobody knows what that means or what that's all about, so that's meant to make Brienne look at him askance.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 19 July 2017
  • There may have been reason to look askance at their record through three weeks with Newton playing poorly.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • But does this healthy scrutiny too often tempt those of us on the outside to look askance at anything that comes from China?
    — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Boyfriends who bore witness to my habit looked at me askance, as if my behavior were on a par with swiping sugar packets from a diner counter.
    — Vogue, 21 June 2018
  • Noble, the former FEC official, said regulators might not look askance at the mere use of the corporate email account.
    — Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Potential investors who already look askance at the steady drip-drip of losses from theft and smuggling are even more likely to be deterred by drug gang violence.
    — Amy Stillman, Bloomberg.com, 25 July 2017
  • While some look askance at produce that isn’t picture-perfect, Megan Klein saw opportunity.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Elegance aside, no one will look at you askance for ordering Beijing-style chicken wings with a Captain and Cherry Cola float at midnight.
    — Jason Tesauro, Esquire, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The important takeaway is that those behaviors that were tolerated while the board looked askance are what permitted this situation to arise.
    — Robert Siegel, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Lawns use 50 percent of all urban water during summer months, and as cities wrote new local rules limiting lawns in new homes and businesses, neighbors looked askance at homeowners who had bright green turf.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2017
  • Green is a sort of radically progressive reactionary, who looks askance at the cultural and moral modes that pass for urbanity and sophistication but not at the freedoms that give rise to them.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2017
  • The German news media, too, has looked askance at Documenta’s expansion into the capital of what some still offensively call a schuldenland, or debtor country.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2017
  • The Trump warning to Mr. Draghi and his successor is nonetheless that Washington will look askance at further attempts at competitive devaluation on the not-so-sly.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 June 2019
  • Major stock exchanges are starting to look askance at dual-class stock structures that vest supermajority control in individuals or small groups.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • But perhaps at a time when so much of warfare is difficult to see—special forces operations, cyberattacks, mass surveillance, and drone strikes—a novel can illuminate the human suffering of war by looking at it askance.
    — Andrew Lanham, The New Republic, 8 June 2018
  • Tunisians, however, increasingly look askance on this alliance, which appears grounded in mutual self-preservation.
    — Monica Marks, Washington Post, 5 May 2017
  • In addition, his apparent enthusiasm for astrology and seeming fondness for such ideas as astral projection and the possibility of abduction by aliens also led his scientific peers to look at him askance.
    — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Like Democrats before him, who in other parts of the country were considered outrageously liberal, Newsom repeatedly irritated his party’s left, which looked askance at his pragmatism and his opposition to tax increases.
    — Christopher Cadelago, sacbee, 23 Feb. 2018
  • In the decades before performance art, the art world looked askance at his self-aggrandizing antics and Dalí fell out with the increasingly academic Surrealist establishment, who effectively excommunicated him from the movement.
    — Adrienne Westenfeld, Town & Country, 20 Feb. 2014
  • But the products of his grotesque imagination, which fixed on anything smelly, phony, hollow, haphazard, askance or asymmetrical, remain testaments to humor’s revelatory power.
    — Julian Lucas, New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • SDS was increasingly suspicious of established authorities and looked askance at corporate power.
    — Todd Gitlin, Smithsonian, 4 May 2017
  • Still, prosecutors understand that juries may look askance at sweetheart plea deals, especially with those who've been publicly demonized, and that defense lawyers may subject cooperators to bruising cross-examinations.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018

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