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look askance at

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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.

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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 More results

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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

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