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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.
See also: look

look askance at somebody/something (slightly formal) also look at somebody/something askance
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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