look askance at

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look askance at someone or something

Fig. to be surprised or shocked at someone or something. The teacher looked askance at the student who had acted so rudely. Everyone had looked askance at her efforts as an artist.

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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. English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context While such whims and chimeras were flitting across my fancy I began to look askance at Mrs. Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context "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? The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context			long gone long in the tooth long on long on and short on long shot long story short Long time no see long-winded longer longest way round is the shortest way home look look a gift horse in the mouth look a million dollars look about look after look after number one look ahead look ahead to look alike Look alive! look around look around for look around some place look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look aside look askance at look at look at cross-eyed look away look back Look before you leap look beyond look daggers at look down look down nose at look down on look fit to kill look for look for high and low look for trouble look forward to look good on paper look here look high and low look in look in on look in the eye look in the face look into look like look like a drowned rat			Look Ahead Left to Right Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation Look ahead LR Look Ahead Technology Look Ahead Test look ahead to look ahead to Look alike Look alike Look Alike Sound Alike Look alive! Look and feel Look and feel Look angle Look angle look around look around look around look around look around look around for look around for look around some place look around you carefully for information or look as if look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look as if butter wouldn't melt in mouth look aside look askance at look at look at look at Look At Agency look at closely look at cross-eyed Look at Me Look At Me Button Look At Me Post Look At Me: Do I Look Like I Give A Flip? Look At Source, Erase Retina :-) Look at the Princess look away look away look back look back look back look back at look back at look back at look back at Look Back in Anger look back on look back on look back on look back on look back upon look backward look becoming on someone look Before You Book

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