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Word | Askance |
Hindi Meaning | संदेह से, संदेह से, तिरछी नजर से, कनखियों से |
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; her eyes with their misted askance look- Elizabeth Bowen; sidelong glances / with a side or oblique glance / Alt. of Askant / with a sideways or indirect look / with an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval. / in a way that shows a lack of trust or approval, | |
Usage | ⇒ She looked at me askance when I asked her to give her bank pass book ⇒ Looking askance at her questioner, she displayed her scorn. ⇒ we looked askance at the dealer's assertion that the car had never been in an accident ⇒ the reformers looked askance at the mystical tradition |
Synonyms | askant, asquint, awry, sidelong, crooked, askew, oblique, skew, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, twisted, doubtfully, lopsided, skeptically, suspiciously, cockeyed, distorted, distrustfully, dubiously, |
Antonyms | approvingly, direct, positively, trustingly, bluntly, candidly, confidently, credulously, directly, fairly, faithfully, favorably, forthrightly, frankly, guilelessly, honestly, ingenuously, openly, outspokenly, perfectly, |
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