All askance synonyms
a·skance
A a adv askance
- suspiciously — tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
- skeptically — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- askew — Something that is askew is not straight or not level with what it should be level with.
- dubiously — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- obliquely — in an oblique manner or direction.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disdainfully — full of or showing disdain; scornful.
- sidelong — directed to one side: a sidelong glance.
adverb askance
- doubtfully — of uncertain outcome or result.
- distrustful — unable or unwilling to trust; doubtful; suspicious: An alert scientist is distrustful of coincidences.
- mistrustful — full of mistrust; suspicious.
adjective askance
- awry — If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
- squint — to look with the eyes partly closed.
- cockeyed — If you say that an idea or scheme is cockeyed, you mean that you think it is very unlikely to succeed.
- crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- askant — askance
- catawampus — askew; awry
- oblique — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- cater-cornered — diagonally placed; diagonal
- cam — a slider or roller attached to a rotating shaft to give a particular type of reciprocating motion to a part in contact with its profile
- strabismic — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- aslant — at a slant