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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   askant
       adj 1: (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or
              as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with
              their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong
              glances" [syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint,
              squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong]