Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Askance

/əs-kăns'/ · A·skance · IPA /əˈskæns/

01 adv. Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.

1.
Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.
“They dart away; they wheel askance.” — Beattie.

“My palfrey eyed them askance.” — Landor.

“Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.” — Gladstone.

02 v. t. To turn aside.

1.
To turn aside.[Poet.]
“O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!” — Shak.