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askance

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
IPA : əsˈkæns əˈskæns
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Phonetic spelling of askance

askance
uh-skans

Meanings for askance

It is a look of suspicion.

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Examples of in a sentence

Though there are many Christians in India to-day, the Hindu still looks askance at Christianity, not because it is a religion but because it is foreign.
He looked askance at all projects for the emancipation of the serfs, but, as one of the largest landowners of Denmark, he did much service to agriculture by lightening the burdens of the countrymen and introducing technical and scientific improvements which greatly increased production.
The Liberal Eiderdansk party was for dividing Schleswig into three distinct administrative belts, according as the various nationalities predomin ated (language rescripts of '85),but German sentiment was opposed to any such settlement and, still worse, the great continental powers looked askance on
At Jellachich first, indeed, his activity had been looked at askance at Innsbruck, as but another force making for dis- Illyr integration.

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