adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
look
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No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy.
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Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on.
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The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.
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It often looked askance at the mainland.
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Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If a student comes to me with a well-constructed play nowadays, I look a little askance at it.
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It often looked askance at the mainland.
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No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy.
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Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on.
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The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.
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They came in diffidently, nodded respectfully to Wilcox, and looked askance at Robyn.
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Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme.