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| Main Entry: |
askance
 [uh-skans] 
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| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | sideways |
| Synonyms: | askew, disapprovingly, disdainfully, dubiously, obliquely, sidelong, sideways, skeptically, suspiciously |
| Main Entry: | awry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off course; amiss |
| Synonyms: | afield, askance, askew, aslant, astray, badly, bent, cockeyed, crooked, curved, slanting, turned, wrong, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | ok, on course |
| Main Entry: | cockeyed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked, askew |
| Synonyms: | absurd, askance, askant, asymmetrical, awry, cam, canted, crazy, crooked, cross-eyed, lopsided, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, squint, strabismic |
| Antonyms: | level, straight |
Example Sentences
- Many parents look askance at flavored milk, concerned that the last thing their children need is more sugar.
- Faculty members who once looked askance when asked to take on minority students in their laboratories now clamor for them.
- But even he looked askance as he was put on a gurney and a technician hooked him up to a defibrillator in case his heart stopped.
| Main Entry: | oblique |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanting; at an angle |
| Synonyms: | angled, askance, askew, aslant, asymmetrical, awry, bent, cater-cornered, crooked, diagonal, distorted, diverging, inclined, inclining, leaning, on the bias, pitched, pitching, sideways, skew, slanted, sloped, sloping, strained, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, turned, twisted |
| Notes: | oblique means slanting or inclined in direction or course or position - or misleading; opaque means not transmitting or reflecting light - or not clearly understood or expressed |
| Main Entry: | doubtfully |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | skeptically |
| Synonyms: | ambiguously, askance, distrustfully, doubtingly, dubiously, hesitatingly, irresolutely, problematically, questionably, suspiciously, tentatively, uncertainly, undecidedly, unsettingly |
| Main Entry: | questioningly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | skeptically |
| Synonyms: | askance, doubtfully, doubtingly, dubiously, suspiciously, with a grain of salt |
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