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All askance synonyms

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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
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