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look askance at someone/something to consider someone or something in a disapproving way. The courts have tended to look askance at many of these claims. Our teachers looked at us askance. See also: look |
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As England grew Puritan, the people began to look askance at the theater, for the Puritans had always been its enemies. While such whims and chimeras were flitting across my fancy I began to look askance at Mrs. "Where," asked he, with a look askance at them -- for it was the clergyman's peculiarity that he seldom, now-a-days, looked straight forth at any object, whether human or inanimate" where, my kind doctor, did you gather those herbs, with such a dark, flabby leaf? |
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