What is another word for askance?
Pronunciation:
[ ɐskˈans], [ ɐskˈans], [ ɐ_s_k_ˈa_n_s]
Related words: a word meaning askew, to look askance, to look with disapproval on, to regard with suspicion or mistrust
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Similar words for askance:
- askew (adjective)
- awry (adjective)
- cockeyed (adjective)
- oblique (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- questioningly (adverb)
- all (adverb)
- doubtfully (adverb)
- questioningly (adverb)
- askance (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Askance:
adj.
• askew (adjective)- more turned,
- most topsyturvey,
- more obliquely,
- offcenter,
- more topsyturvey,
- topsy turvey,
- most crookedly,
- more aslant,
- off center,
- more crookedly,
- most askant,
- most topsy-turvey,
- more buckled,
- most aslant,
- more catawampus,
- most buckled,
- topsyturvey,
- most turned,
- more topsy turvey,
- most obliquely,
- most topsy turvey,
- more askance,
- more askant,
- most askance,
- most catawampus,
- to side,
- more topsy-turvey.
- cross eyed,
- crosseyed,
- camest,
- more canted,
- squintest,
- most canted,
- more strabismic,
- most strabismic.
- slanting,
- oblique,
- aslant,
- topsy-turvey,
- CAMER,
- awry,
- ludicrous,
- lateral,
- cam,
- yaw ways,
- to one side,
- squinter,
- knotted,
- askant,
- one side,
- cockeyed,
- strabismic,
- catawampus,
- crookedly.
adv
• Other relevant words: (adverb) • questioningly (adverb)adv.
• all (adverb) • doubtfully (adverb) • questioningly (adverb)n.
• askance (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:- commission,
- veneration,
- plastered,
- showing,
- bollocks up,
- analyze,
- looking at,
- take away,
- derisory,
- direct,
- hunched,
- dread,
- discredit,
- reversal,
- impression,
- front,
- expose,
- substructure,
- want,
- deflect,
- unsteadily,
- tone,
- ask out,
- tizzy,
- probationary,
- sit around,
- hunt,
- soaked,
- contain,
- catacorner,
- betroth,
- vibrate,
- lookup,
- waste,
- hesitation,
- stooped,
- arrest,
- submit,
- setback,
- lust,
- question,
- metrical unit,
- pay for,
- aimless,
- seem,
- exact,
- asymmetrical,
- broadsheet,
- gnarly,
- await,
- deuce,
- athwart,
- notion,
- nonplused,
- hover,
- metrical foot,
- preposterous,
- cagey,
- slantways,
- care,
- guide,
- directionless,
- ostracize,
- louse up,
- assume,
- despite,
- ingest,
- explore,
- besotted,
- afloat,
- lock,
- fumble,
- coggle,
- take aim,
- glower,
- skew-whiff,
- blotto,
- haywire,
- get the picture,
- spoil,
- provisional,
- expression,
- tout,
- querier,
- ridiculous,
- counsel,
- by,
- incertitude,
- hunting,
- return,
- black eye,
- hope,
- fellate,
- bragging,
- on the fence,
- fuddled,
- puzzled,
- deliberate,
- loaded,
- pick up,
- avert,
- understructure,
- flicker,
- revere,
- screw up,
- subscribe,
- bollix,
- adopt,
- abdominal external oblique muscle,
- busyness,
- indecisiveness,
- bobble,
- base,
- amiss,
- reckon,
- aim,
- quail at,
- strike,
- investigate,
- equivocally,
- press,
- animal foot,
- train,
- stooping,
- model,
- cast out,
- admit,
- prayer,
- venerate,
- calculate,
- perverted,
- charter,
- fundament,
- proceeds,
- crowing,
- hire,
- flitter,
- foundation,
- foul up,
- lower,
- conjure,
- shadiness,
- ghost,
- concern,
- takings,
- fright,
- sit down,
- savvy,
- infantry,
- feeling,
- dubiety,
- catercorner,
- incredulously,
- unreadable,
- apply,
- read,
- shaky,
- round-shouldered,
- shadowiness,
- buzz,
- plunge,
- disrespect,
- focal point,
- orison,
- ask over,
- dubiousness,
- count,
- entreaty,
- contract,
- unresolved,
- flavor,
- gutless,
- management,
- shoot,
- leery,
- tincture,
- looking,
- collateral,
- hold,
- bungle,
- unsealed,
- falteringly,
- lamp shade,
- utilize,
- timid,
- smell,
- ii,
- indecipherable,
- devious,
- undetermined,
- bulge,
- blind drunk,
- shirk,
- circular,
- lactating,
- stir,
- bulge out,
- at a loss,
- dig,
- taste,
- nab,
- refinement,
- boastful,
- external oblique muscle,
- enlist,
- handbill,
- flap,
- gust,
- suspicious,
- knotty,
- need,
- pother,
- seat,
- undecipherable,
- kitty-corner,
- thirst,
- slopped,
- awe,
- demonstrate,
- hoof,
- ill-shapen,
- hook,
- immerse,
- misgiving,
- burn out,
- pack,
- frown on,
- parenthesis,
- leg it,
- flier,
- ask round,
- postulate,
- boast,
- mesh,
- ft,
- necessitate,
- nail,
- turn over,
- divagation,
- self-aggrandizing,
- askew,
- shadow,
- have,
- conjure up,
- adrift,
- ironical,
- steering,
- muff,
- affiance,
- gas,
- judge,
- accept,
- ingathering,
- render,
- deal,
- provisionary,
- lease,
- panel,
- claim,
- kitty-cornered,
- arouse,
- ironic,
- come out,
- postulation,
- nicety,
- occupy,
- shift,
- nonsensical,
- guidance,
- open,
- film,
- thrum,
- cross,
- contumeliously,
- goldbrick,
- tap,
- research,
- blast,
- mistrust,
- lateral pass,
- oblivion,
- reprovingly,
- swear,
- wage,
- call down,
- draw a bead on,
- cata-cornered,
- evoke,
- falter,
- acquire,
- babysit,
- conduct,
- shoot a line,
- unfavourably,
- asking,
- get,
- suspect,
- philippic,
- subscribe to,
- take on,
- groundwork,
- squiffy,
- demo,
- compass,
- posture,
- doubt,
- bollix up,
- focus,
- unsettled,
- make,
- crocked,
- round-backed,
- head off,
- charm,
- faltering,
- receive,
- believe,
- cavalierly,
- pick out,
- rely,
- spirit,
- appear,
- regard,
- mistrustful,
- engulf,
- select,
- dry,
- pixilated,
- trust,
- baby-sit,
- go down on,
- hoof it,
- ride,
- smashed,
- diagonal,
- rent,
- pose,
- waffle,
- put forward,
- reverse,
- bumble,
- bill,
- attempt,
- apart,
- quaver,
- squint-eye,
- mishandle,
- ban,
- accost,
- study,
- gather up,
- lour,
- thwartwise,
- away,
- look for,
- command,
- bank,
- quest,
- hesitate,
- excursus,
- coke,
- take up,
- expect,
- effort,
- flyer,
- fearfulness,
- suspicion,
- court,
- misrepresented,
- utilise,
- strain,
- fluctuate,
- farcical,
- counselling,
- mess up,
- flavour,
- issue,
- botch,
- bollocks,
- seethe,
- suck,
- lampshade,
- irresolution,
- endeavor,
- carry,
- hear,
- pop out,
- essay,
- instruction,
- solicitation,
- soused,
- be adrift,
- fill,
- take care,
- payoff,
- view,
- spectre,
- sloshed,
- consume,
- parade,
- transverse,
- try out,
- puff,
- opt,
- unbelievingly,
- protrude,
- subtlety,
- start,
- quiver,
- think,
- quizzically,
- big,
- leaning,
- lopsidedly,
- absorb,
- focusing,
- foot up,
- rickety,
- predicament,
- squander,
- bid,
- employment,
- cagily,
- take out,
- scorn,
- assay,
- vaunt,
- lead,
- tipped,
- nuance,
- spineless,
- brag,
- pissed,
- show,
- shimmy,
- invite out,
- cop,
- soak up,
- wonder,
- untrusting,
- tad,
- atilt,
- appealingness,
- seek,
- centering,
- misshapen,
- unsafe,
- march,
- strabismus,
- shade off,
- ostracise,
- sloped,
- starve,
- self-aggrandising,
- aspect,
- hunger,
- remove,
- catty-cornered,
- knobbed,
- tight,
- careen,
- throwaway,
- moisture,
- bring,
- shock,
- undirected,
- absurd,
- try on,
- cagy,
- facial expression,
- drift,
- corrupt,
- spook,
- range,
- wraith,
- precariousness,
- counseling,
- aslope,
- doubtfulness,
- disdain,
- ball up,
- canted,
- snow,
- dilemma,
- operate,
- muck up,
- hesitantly,
- diffident,
- collection,
- call forth,
- opinion,
- uncertainness,
- shoot for,
- stress,
- span,
- debar,
- botch up,
- tempt,
- prosecute,
- collect,
- prefer,
- pick,
- nose candy,
- blackball,
- depend,
- fill in,
- raise,
- gasconade,
- pursue,
- learn,
- stave off,
- in question,
- demand,
- collar,
- weave,
- human foot,
- braggy,
- romance,
- flub,
- oblique case,
- incertain,
- shove off,
- scowl,
- planless,
- look at,
- ward off,
- changeable,
- tirade,
- banish,
- annul,
- get hold of,
- wonky,
- namby-pamby,
- drive,
- slanted,
- charge,
- see,
- fluff,
- face,
- canvass,
- laughable,
- yield,
- fend off,
- oscillate,
- stiff,
- distrustfulness,
- quash,
- dubitable,
- attract,
- squinch,
- bump,
- moot,
- withdraw,
- malformed,
- sample,
- endeavour,
- pie-eyed,
- plight,
- bluster,
- wonderingly,
- convey,
- involve,
- swash,
- use up,
- invalidate,
- musculus obliquus externus abdominis,
- gnarled,
- blow out,
- use,
- contemptuously,
- weigh,
- scornfully,
- analyse,
- wrong,
- float,
- ask in,
- 2,
- obviate,
- fuck up,
- idiotic,
- bring up,
- void,
- sozzled,
- steep,
- attend,
- present,
- shove along,
- way,
- flutter,
- conceive,
- grasp,
- hawthorn,
- humming,
- keep off,
- tilt,
- tint,
- ill-defined,
- fiddle,
- deformed,
- bespeak,
- fuss,
- debate,
- bet,
- feel,
- take in,
- test,
- specter,
- nullify,
- focussing,
- probe,
- wait,
- invertebrate foot,
- pop,
- pes,
- conservatively,
- braggart,
- prove,
- display,
- shy,
- adjudicate,
- reverence,
- comprehend,
- sloping,
- digression,
- catty-corner,
- squinched.
- cautiously,
- be afraid,
- critically,
- search,
- questioner,
- apprehensively,
- indirectly,
- unfavorably,
- enquirer,
- distorted,
- examine,
- inquirer,
- circumspectly,
- invoke,
- try,
- diagonally,
- disapprovingly,
- ask for,
- censoriously,
- guardedly,
- broadside on,
- Laterad,
- distrust,
- the left,
- fearfully,
- petition,
- appeal,
- laterally,
- desire,
- captiously,
- consider,
- asker,
- fear,
- transversal,
- disbelieve,
- on the beam,
- edgewise,
- shudder at,
- uneasily,
- ask,
- choose,
- make faces,
- wry,
- pray,
- carefully,
- inquire,
- Glancingly,
- solicit,
- catawampous,
- shake the head,
- reproachfully,
- edgeways,
- charily,
- employ,
- suspiciously,
- take,
- warily,
- eschew,
- interrogate,
- Sidling,
- at an angle,
- woo,
- avoid,
- look,
- aspire,
- Sideling,
- crooked,
- withdraw from,
- apprehend,
- sideway,
- recoil from,
- lopsided,
- require,
- implore,
- engage,
- aside,
- enquire,
- beseech,
- squinting,
- Importune,
- contempt,
- anxiously,
- twisted,
- skewed,
- right and left,
- entreat,
- sidewards,
- crave,
- cock-a-hoop,
- slantwise,
- frown upon,
- mistrustfully,
- exhibit,
- cynically,
- sideward,
- the right,
- request,
- crabwise,
- have qualms,
- adjure,
- Agee,
- skew,
- disdainfully,
- broadside,
- beg,
- engross,
- shun,
- shrink from,
- plead,
- disbelievingly,
- sideways,
- invite,
- call for.
How to use "Askance" in context?
As a word, "askance" has several definitions. Most commonly it means to look askance at someone or something, as if awaiting a negative response. It can also connote a distrustful or withholding attitude. Interestingly, the word may come from the same root as "ask," meaning to request a difficult question in order to test someone's knowledge. In short, it's a way of communicating that you're not sure what to believe or trust.
Homophones for Askance:
- agenize, agonize, awakening, azonic, assonance, achimenes, agency, assamese, assuming, acinos, agonus, agnosia, agonise, agenesis, Ashkenazi, Aegean Sea, agnise, agamous, aching, acquiescence, aging, aconcagua, agenesia, accusing, assigning, acinous, acinic, agamic, agenise, ageing, auxinic, akinesis, axenic, asking, Asanga, acinus, aquinas, acinose, agnize, akinesia, acinonyx.
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