Antonyms for look askance

Grammar : Verb

Definition of look askance

As in squint : verb scrunch up eyes when viewing
As in censure : verb condemn; criticize severely
As in complain : verb grumble about

Example sentences :

There was no narrow exclusiveness about this place, no one could look askance at her here.
Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall

Dialstone Lane was at first disposed to look askance at Mr. Tasker.
Extract from : « Dialstone Lane, Complete » by W.W. Jacobs

I think the blouses must look askance at these satraps of the desert.
Extract from : « Saunterings » by Charles Dudley Warner

The other Nambūtiris look askance at these, and neither marry nor dine with them.
Extract from : « Castes and Tribes of Southern India » by Edgar Thurston

The villagers of Bere look askance upon the dwellers on this eyrie.
Extract from : « The Hardy Country » by Charles G. Harper

Why, then, should he look askance at my book, which is no more than memories of my spring days?
Extract from : « Memoirs of My Dead Life » by George Moore

I am not quarrelsome; but when a man seems to look askance at me, that irritates me.
Extract from : « Monsieur Cherami » by Charles Paul de Kock

Mrs. Brackett must have seen Kennedy and me exchange a look askance at the name.
Extract from : « The Social Gangster » by Arthur B. Reeve

No one could look askance at poor Ralph Dacre's young widow.
Extract from : « The Lamp in the Desert » by Ethel M. Dell

Only at rare times he got a look askance, which did not seem to bode any good.
Extract from : « Dame Care » by Hermann Sudermann

Synonyms for look askance

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