Askance: alternatives and connections

Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

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

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With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.

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Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.

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Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.

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Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.