ASKANCE


Meaning of ASKANCE in English

adverb

1.

Synonyms: awry 1, askant, askew, ||cam, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed, crookedly

Antonyms: directly

2.

with absence of approval or trust

a proceeding one must view more than a little askance

Synonyms: distrustfully, doubtfully, mistrustfully, skeptically, suspiciously

Related Word: captiously, critically, cynically, doubtingly; deprecatingly, depreciatively, disparagingly

Contrasted words: approvingly, favorably

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