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"askance" Definitions
  1. to look at or react to somebody/something in a critical way or in a way that shows you do not trust or believe them

177 Sentences With "askance"

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"A lot of the residents [in Mosul], you know, looked askance at Baghdad, looked askance at the Kurdish region, and that gave them just enough of a crevice to hang on," he added.
But Germany has long looked askance at such gouvernement économique.
All of black America is looking askance at Donald Trump.
There's a briefcase by the desk, a globe slightly askance.
So far, Mr. Price has looked askance at such efforts.
Substantively, I was already inclined to look askance at surveillance programs.
An investor considering Leviathan Inc would certainly look askance at its record.
That's where the photos of Beyoncé looking askance at her come from.
"That's where the photos of Beyoncé looking askance" came from, Shelburne reported.
We still have courts, and many of them look askance on such schemes.
Take a look at this sexy little stalk of daikon, limbs temptingly askance.
Mr. Gerhaher looks askance at Strauss for his choice of texts — Brahms, too.
Above are fashionable portraits of women in chiffon dresses holding their fans askance.
Don't forget, there are other reasons to look askance at The Goop Lab.
"That's where the photos of Beyoncé looking askance at her came from," Shelburne reported.
Inside the industry, some executives look askance at what Caesars and MGM are planning.
A fancy light fixture hangs askance in what might have been a dining room.
And, it wasn't just the Washington establishment who looked askance at Trump's Charlottesville comments.
The group is opposed by the Taliban (which looks askance at its Arab origins).
Observing Erica as she sketches, Elizabeth now knows how to look at herself askance.
Others on the left look askance at Biden's attempted explanation for his flip-flop.
So when his dealers looked askance at his work with Simons, he ignored them.
The latter reformers emerged from movement cultures that emphasized participation and looked askance at hierarchy.
Switzerland and Mexico are among the smaller powers that had looked askance at India's efforts.
My co-worker, a connoisseur of online forums and bulletin boards, looked at me askance.
It could have remained only a library, eyed askance and left empty by wary Marvilans.
As she spoke, she looked askance, blinking distinctly and in quick succession like a mouse.
Not two men enter, and both stumble out eying each other askance, wondering what exactly happened.
Conventional dealers may well look askance at her work, some dismissing it as tasteless or garish.
Like when her colleagues looked askance at her when she began wearing her hijab at work.
I find nothing askance in the association never previously boycotting the institutions of any other country.
I had to get people to look askance at the propaganda machine that fills their brain.
His gaze is examining, and he occasionally looks at people askance, which makes him appear skeptical.
I detected at least one other pub goer, perhaps a grandmother herself, looking askance at us.
Hardly anyone looked askance at his passion for guns and for training youths in paramilitary tactics.
At the start, in silence, she walks to a corner of the stage — stands, turns, looks askance.
Bond investors would normally look askance at government debt exceeding the value of a country's yearly output.
Scientists often looked askance at traditional knowledge, sometimes with harmful consequences for both science and indigenous livelihoods.
These are awe-inspiring, though you need not be Martin Luther to look askance at their opulence.
We cannot look askance at cultural practices in other countries without asking major questions about our own.
He helped plant the seeds for an environment in which black artists can look askance at race.
However, other provinces would surely look askance if Saskatchewan were seen to be free-riding on their sacrifices.
We look upon the world askance, knowingly, our brains giggling with wisdom and compassion for our fellow man.
Investors are already looking askance at countries that owe a lot of money in foreign currency, for example.
America's hoteliers and travel agencies have watched askance as visitor numbers from abroad have fallen since Mr Trump's inauguration.
Former insiders looked askance at the loan and suspected it was aimed at buying influence, whether successful or not.
"The police will look very askance at you if you want four or five of them," Mr. Alpers said.
American customers, universities and others will likely look askance at striking up relations with Chinese companies on the blacklist.
That organization was established in 1935 by staffers who had looked askance at Johnson's dominance of the Little Congress.
It was because he thinks that the majority of Americans, including many Democrats, will look askance at such a prospect.
Another estate agent looks askance when a Bosnian woman asks about buying into a new holiday complex in nearby Hadzici.
Most are liberals who will look askance at a ticket with Trump and may be reluctant to be his enablers.
Third, the conservative justices dislike the principle of agency autonomy and have looked askance at job protections for agency officials.
It may, for instance, respond to the Buckeyes' humiliation against Clemson by looking askance at conference nonchampions in the future.
And though formally part of the same coalition in Yemen, some Saudi princes are looking askance at their ambitious junior partners.
The PIF's professional investing staff had always looked askance at his pledge of $45bn, which bypassed their processes for allocating money.
Arthur: You mean you believe Trump's populist hordes will look askance at Pence because they'll think he's an establishment dog whistle?
That question is especially important in China, where regulators have looked askance at drones while tightening their hold over civil society.
She felt that some of the companies she wanted to join, which performed exclusively in theaters, looked askance at her background.
Despite the enthusiasm with which some members of this demographic in South Carolina have greeted Bloomberg, others look at him askance.
More importantly, HS2 sends a signal of sorts to foreign investors looking askance at Britain's decision to quit the European Union.
The opinion piece acknowledged that it was "routine" for observers to view economic data from the world's second-largest economy with askance.
Marisol Mena, Mr Landeo's co-host, says people look askance if she speaks Quechua in a shopping centre or a bank queue.
The Television Academy, the main body behind the awards, has looked askance at the show for most of its 43-year run.
The guns issue in particular was a major concession by Canada, which strictly regulates firearms and looks askance at American gun culture.
But I remember her looking askance at anime, especially as it started to rise in popularity in the states in the early '90s.
This newfound legality hasn't stopped the teetotaling constituency of our town to look askance when they hear about alcohol being brewed at home.
No one says anything, probably no one is even looking at me askance, wrapped up as they all are in their busy lives.
Burbank may look askance at Elway's comments because the executive was prohibited from speaking publicly about them while the case is going on.
Well, it should make you look even more askance on the 65 percent of firms that report zero women partners, of any stripe.
That simply cannot happen when we look down on teenagers or look at them askance, as this list almost invites us to do.
He was an Irish Catholic from Massachusetts, long ruled by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who looked askance at anyone connected to the Pope.
The feeling goes both ways, too, as any number of jazz musicians, looking askance at the hummable tune, would be happy to testify.
And teachers who "specialise in difficult subjects (like chemistry or physics)" may look askance at pay schedules that "stop them from outearning gym teachers".
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh look askance at President Trump, while plenty of red hats are still proudly worn in the vast expanse between those cities.
A journalist, attentive to the woes of the shoe industry, might bemoan the economy's egregious overcapacity and look askance at its $180 GDP target.
However, there could be enormous regulatory hurdles ahead for something like this, internationally, and bond issuers may well look askance at such a project.
But as I got older, friends and boyfriends began looking at me askance when I requested mayonnaise-less and cheese-free sandwiches in restaurants.
But the products of his grotesque imagination, which fixed on anything smelly, phony, hollow, haphazard, askance or asymmetrical, remain testaments to humor's revelatory power.
The company has even taken steps to roll back some of the more egregious financial arrangements that made investors look at the company askance.
He saw yet another budget deficit (there had been several in a row) at a time when budget deficits were still looked at askance.
Future employers will look askance on a job you held for a short time, and it can easily show up in a background check.
Courts will look askance at regulators who tell them they want to eliminate regulations that, a few years ago, they insisted were cost-justified.
But now, thanks to this smart and helpful lobbyist, I had another good argument about why I should look askance at them. Win-win!
Whereas a few decades ago, Georgian scientists like Kutateladze and Sulakvelidze were viewed askance for their use of phages, they are now finding new acceptance.
A final reason for BMS shareholders to look askance at the merger is that it may scupper their chances that BMS itself might be acquired.
It sounds like you don't think your biological perspective on morals should make us look askance at them — they remain admirable regardless of their origins.
Not so much a direct critic of the sporting establishment, Mr. Sherrod was more likely to raise an eyebrow askance than to spit in outrage.
"And still, colleagues look at me askance, say, 'Isn't this something they grow out of, I was taught that in medical school,'" Dr. Breuner said.
Wolfe, less cuttingly, looks askance at the Panthers for, among other things, being the sort of outfit that would need the attention of such people.
If you and your partner met on Raya, you may look askance at your kids if they want to hang out on tattered old Tinder.
Older women were her most ardent supporters, while younger ones often looked askance at the idea that gender might play a role in the election.
The German news media, too, has looked askance at Documenta's expansion into the capital of what some still offensively call a schuldenland, or debtor country.
Although Hendriks's peers initially look at him askance for doggedly pursuing such a crazy idea, the dream of decentralizing the internet is alive and well IRL.
A pleasingly symmetric still life of a kitchenette goes slightly askance with the inclusion of a round-edged avocado and the abstract curve of a banana.
As regulators look increasingly askance at Big Tech, the very notion of blitzscaling raises competition and other concerns, which will make public investors yet more queasy.
Some people look askance at preservatives, but not only is this one all-natural, it has just been shown to kill tumor cells and antibiotic resistant bacteria.
From this askance viewpoint, the audience sees a nightmarish vision of a series of systems that, confronted with something they didn't understand, resorted to process and absurdity.
Mr Heffernan's boss and the chief of police were both supporting the incumbent mayor, Jose Torres, and looked askance on Mr Heffernan's apparent support for his opponent.
We cocked our heads askance, wondering if this grotesquely sanguine moment would be cut abruptly short by some sort of heart-clenching announcement by the Kim regime.
Yet American officials may look askance at the hiring of an executive from a large pharmaceutical company for whom the Global Fund has been a major customer.
The employer may well look askance at that, but if you really mistrust the underlying motives, maybe this is a company you don't want to work for.
But O'Reilly's advertisers had to contend with a wider market than just the Fox News audience — a market looks askance at supporting men who serially harass women.
Many porn professionals looked askance at Tumblr's adult content, pointing out that much of what was shared on the site was stolen from paysites and redistributed without attribution.
The fun clues are absolutely fun but I look ASKANCE at DOES, which just seems too vague, and it took a little while to accept POD as clued.
But Canadian refugee tribunals are wary of "asylum-shopping" and look askance at people coming from one of the world's richest countries to file claims, the refugee lawyers said.
While most of the previous directors of national intelligence have tried to take a nonpartisan tone, Mr. Trump has looked askance at officials who have tried to remain neutral.
More recently, the FCC looked askance at an earlier attempt by Sinclair to sell big stations to Smith associates with strings attached, The Wall Street Journal reported last month.
He lamented that Europeans and others who cared about fairness in sport must look at America askance when the Boxing Commission did nothing to protect black fighters from unfair matches.
Still, prosecutors understand that juries may look askance at sweetheart plea deals, especially with those who've been publicly demonized, and that defense lawyers may subject cooperators to bruising cross-examinations.
Beginning in 22016, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board began to look askance at Lincoln's activities, and Keating called in political favors to try to get the dogs called off.
Subtle Philo-isms can be felt within the loose layers of Hwang's designs, in his tailored pieces that are angled slightly askance on the body and in his precise cutting.
When I looked at them askance, they recounted times when we huddled in the library to study in groups, and how I would stare at them, as though setting myself apart.
Depressingly, it seems like one of the better ways to discourage corruption in the new administration may be as simple as Americans looking askance at Ivanka and denting her public image.
In my relationship with English, in this relationship with the intrinsic distance between a nonnative speaker and an adopted language that makes people look askance, I feel invisible but not estranged.
Bedminster is home to the publisher Steve Forbes and Woody Johnson, the owner of the New York Jets, so few residents looked askance at Mr. Trump until he was elected president.
But it's been obviously played up a lot in terms of how Mitch McConnell feels about this, about how -- whether Paul Ryan, you know, looked askance at the way it went.
" Sitting at his desk in a black T-shirt and matching sweatpants, his long, curly dark hair askance, Martinez, 52, looked at a large flatscreen, clicking through images of his "Basquiats.
Notorious "Pharma bro" Shkreli pointedly smirked, pulled faces and looked askance at at a prosecutor's damning characterization of him as she gave her closing argument Thursday at Shkreli's securities fraud trial.
Not only is it sinewy and flexible—that's a funk groove propelling a title song that celebrates the woke meme it also looks askance at—but the lyrics are sharper than ever.
Although the Syrian Kurds did not declare Mr. al-Assad's government an enemy, the Syrian president looked askance at their goal of self-rule and vowed to retake all his country's territory.
My lola looked slightly askance at the chicken relleno I made for Mission Chinese Food — but she was tickled that I called it Josefina's House Special Chicken and sold it for $75.
Although the Syrian Kurds did not declare Mr. al-Assad's government an enemy, the Syrian president looked askance at their goal of self-rule and vowed to retake all his country's territory.
Courts would particularly look askance at agreements covering allegations of sexual assault or other criminal acts, said Jennifer Drobac, a law professor at Indiana University who formerly represented plaintiffs in harassment cases.
That's normal in the world of startups — after all, the founders built the damn thing — but some corporate governance critics look askance at a public company that acts like a private company.
However, foreign courts are likely to look askance at any effort by Mr Maduro to pick and choose which lenders to snub, since PDVSA is widely regarded as being indistinguishable from its owner.
He looks askance at the big statement, the grand gesture, the heroic expressionist pose — to him rock & roll means playing a good show for the crowd every night, every week, every month, indefinitely.
India has looked askance at the project as parts of it run through Pakistan-administered Kashmir that India considers its own territory, though Wang said the plan had nothing to do with territorial disputes.
She had the credibility with some of those former enemies, as well as with Democrats that were from other regions of the country, who otherwise would've looked askance at favored treatment for New York.
Just as Que Mai tells this taboo history askance, she devises oblique ways for her characters to navigate the unspeakable events that divide them: They communicate indirectly, through deathbed letters and diaries read surreptitiously.
Federal appellate courts are looking askance at photo ID laws in Texas and North Carolina because they are unfair to voters least likely to have identity cards: black people, the poor, the elderly and students.
It took one haircut for me to get the bare bones of the story, and a few more to gather the details, and still a few more for me to start looking at Lily askance.
I ask forgiveness — in the name of the church and of the Lord — and I ask forgiveness of you, for all those times in history when we have discriminated, mistreated or looked askance at you.
Democratic voters have looked askance as Israel has aggressively pursued its settlement building on Palestinian land, mounted harsh military campaigns against Palestinians, orchestrated high-profile rebukes of Democrats like President Obama, and aggressively courted Republicans.
Anyone tired of the disdainful clichés lobbed at classical institutions might initially look askance at LoftOpera, one of a number of small-scale New York companies that advertise themselves as alternatives to a decrepit establishment.
While she patiently compares poems, never damning Lu Xun's behavior — how can we really know what happened so long ago — she looks askance at those who still seek to deify him for his contemporary political relevance.
But it also refused to ratify the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea, always looked askance at the International Criminal Court, and did not allow respect for sovereignty to slow its invasion of Iraq.
Many of these conservatives have been looking at Trump askance since Cruz dropped out, unsure whether to back a candidate who once poured donations into Democratic coffers and has supported universal health care and abortion rights.
Today, several artists in "In Search of Expo 267" look askance at that nationalist project, including the indigenous Quebecker Geronimo Inutiq, who contributes a trippy installation that commingles videos, prints and a Katimavik-inspired dance floor.
While some law professors look askance at outside work, regarding it as impure, most schools permit it, and Harvard has encouraged it, according to Randall L. Kennedy, a law professor there and former colleague of Ms. Warren.
But perhaps at a time when so much of warfare is difficult to see—special forces operations, cyberattacks, mass surveillance, and drone strikes—a novel can illuminate the human suffering of war by looking at it askance.
In recent weeks, Nate and Toni discussed whether the superdelegate system should survive; looked into claims from Sanders supporters that elections were rigged; and looked askance at surveys showing Sanders outperforming Clinton in polling against Donald Trump.
I enjoyed some pieces of it very much, especially the relationship between Churchill and his wife (played by Kristin Scott Thomas) and Ben Mendelsohn, as the king, sitting and looking askance at a day-drinking, disheveled Churchill.
The Chancellor, capping of a series of decisions in which Chancery judges looked askance at disclosure-only M&A settlements, refused to approve a deal that would have settled a shareholder class action challenging Zillow's acquisition of Trulia.
Go out for coffee with friends whose teenagers also look at them askance and reassure your wife that she's still got it, even if her dance moves do cause your ninth-grade daughter to break out in hives.
China generally looks askance at what it views as any foreign interference in its legal system, which is controlled by the ruling Communist Party, though governments such as the British one have been involved in helping with legal reforms.
The rich valuations could discourage acquirers, who also have to assume the risk that antitrust regulators may look askance at more consolidation in the sector after a wave of mergers in recent years, investment bankers and industry experts say.
It is right there in the voiceover, which, in a weird fourth-wall break, Tyrion seems to hear as he looks askance at the rocking of the cabin, and then at us, with great big sad droopy puppy dog eyes.
More importantly, I think the America of the future will look askance at efforts to elevate majority faiths or subject not so traditional believers to the status of an orphan class to be denied genuinely equal treatment in this diverse country.
At Paul Russell & Company, a Massachusetts dealer and restorer that offers maintenance and even support at road rallies, Alex Finigan, the sales manager, looks askance at the idea of an owner's ever parting with a car worthy of his dealership.
Yet many linguists were not surprised by all of the vitriol, as there is a sense among some Chomskyan syntacticians that someone looking askance upon their enterprise simply doesn't understand the jargon and arguments, and is perhaps incapable of doing so.
While customers often look askance at consolidation among their suppliers, Broadcom has said it offers a possible solution to a conflict that has led to a regulatory crackdown, lawsuits with Apple and also has prompted others to cease paying licensing fees.
Modern progressives will look askance at his record on social and identity issues, such as busing children to integrate segregated schools and racial inequality in the criminal-justice system, and at his occasionally too-close-for-comfort interactions with women in public.
On Sunday afternoon, the SI star re-posted an image of herself from the magazine's latest Swimsuit Edition on Instagram in which she wears a navy blue tank top and thong bottoms, glancing askance at the camera with her behind in full profile.
But there's also the menace from external factors: from the police, from strangers who might look at her askance, and even from her school friends, who inadvertently dismiss her Blackness as tangential to who she is through a constant stream of micro-aggressions.
A female horseshoe crab, dragging herself onto the sand to deposit 4,000 green eggs, was not looking askance at the nearest male crab and asking how her life might have been different if she'd washed up in a different part of Brooklyn.
Earlier this year, Sanders — who doesn't sit on the Foreign Relations, Armed Services, or Intelligence Committees — quietly added to his team Matt Duss, a veteran Middle East analyst known for looking askance at America's tendency toward uncritical alliance with Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Sanders objected to Clinton's attack so strenuously (he called it a "low blow") because he understands just how askance Democratic voters in Nevada and South Carolina will look at someone who was willing to risk ousting Obama from the White House after only one term.
But in a world where the president is habitually casting doubt on the electoral process, where Sanders supporters have long looked askance at the DNC, and fears about foreign interference abound, the American process is at serious risk of a major loss in legitimacy.
But, as I wrote last week, the conventional wisdom that the Republican-controlled Senate would never remove Trump should be viewed somewhat skeptically -- in the same way that any "X thing can never happen in politics" should be viewed somewhat askance in this age of Trump.
He looks askance at the transformation of commercial banks like Citigroup from long-term lenders into financial supermarkets—"service providers for a fee"—in the decades before 2008, and he rightly emphasizes the enabling role that successive Administrations played in this process, not least Bill Clinton's.
Always viewing the subject askance, as if through a veil, it wanders off in tangents before being pulled back violently via the elastic cord Cave references, which no matter how far he strays from the event, inescapably catapults him back to the epicentre of his pain and distress.
Co-founded by singer and rhythm guitarist Cornell, who was born in Seattle, Soundgarden was the first grunge band to sign to a major label, A&M Records — a move that some grunge purists looked at askance, but that also helped facilitate the group's ascension to the rock mainstream.
The years between 18 and 183 are a sort of societal limbo period when, in most states, you can smoke but not drink; make medical decisions for yourself but stay on your parents' health insurance policy; and try on a variety of identities and life experiences without anyone looking askance.
Thank You for Your Service pulls off a triple feat: It honors the sacrifices that American soldiers make, it scathingly demonstrates the shameful way veterans are often treated upon their return home, and it probes the emotional lives of men in a culture that valorizes the "tough" and looks askance at the broken.
The thought that I keep coming back to this week is that representation matters so, so much—especially in a scene like this, where racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry remain rampant, and any scrap of progress is still looked at askance by gatekeepers or shouted down by reactionaries.
The committee might look askance at the low quality of their opposition — Georgia has played only two ranked teams and Alabama, as one might say in Tuscaloosa, ain't played nobody — but if both win out and then play each other in a competitive SEC title game, both might land in the playoff.
In particular, the portrait of meritocratic social life that's being drawn, usually by other elite-educated journalists to explain who Kavanaugh was in college — the prep school jock, drinking with his buddies and starting bar fights while his less-privileged classmates looked on askance — is at once terribly familiar and significantly incomplete.
Breakdown: The new accord pledges to deepen Franco-German economic integration and diplomatic coordination as well as military cooperation, with an eye toward making Europe less dependent on the U.S. Critics said that the agreement was relatively weak, and many smaller E.U. countries looked askance at the renewed friendship, seeing it as domineering.
Canada: Pressure increased on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to cut a North American Free Trade deal with the U.S. as discussions began between Canada and the Trump administration in the wake of an announced agreement with Mexico (The Wall Street Journal) … Members of Congress looked askance at Trump's announced U.S.-Mexico trade agreement (Reuters).
Photograph by Elizabeth Renstrom for The New Yorker Alessia Cara, a nineteen-year-old singer-songwriter from Ontario, has a breakout single, "Here," in which she finds herself tucked in the corner of a house party and looking askance at her peers, who are clutching cups and dancing to music they may or may not like.
In a world where the man who sits in this realm's version of the iron throne is reportedly always looking for his "shiny new toy," Mulvaney could be next in line after Cohn to be Trump's flavor of the week, potentially denting Wall Street's exuberance given how the conservatives look askance at the Kushner's camp's close ties to the financial community.
The overall number of women in the Academy is just 28 percent: And the overall number of people of color is barely out of the single digits: Still, there are plenty of reasons to be excited about this year's incumbents — along with plenty of reasons to look askance at the Academy for waiting so long to invite more than a few industry legends.
We knew that straightforward slut-shaming was bad, but still looked askance at girls who got too messy in their boy lust; we volunteered for the university office that dealt with intimate partner violence, but didn't know what to do when one of our friend's boyfriends got so angry at her that he put his head through a sliding glass door.
By the time his single for Gravis came out in 2010, no one on the deck would look at you askance for calling Rieder an artist, someone who could take a weirdly foot-wrapping butterfly knife of a trick like the impossible and turn it into a beautiful cyclone, often up and over an obstacle not meant to be impossibled over.
THIS IS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL CONFLICT THE COMPANY HAS BOASTED ABOUT LITERALLY STEALING $003 BILLION LET'S CALL A SPADE A SPADE THAT'S WHAT IT IS. I THINK THE COURTS WILL LOOK AT THIS ASKANCE YOU WENT IN, YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT YOU CHARTED THAT SAYS, YES, THEY CAN DO AN IPO AND WE'RE NOT OBJECTING TO AN IPO BUT IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO AN IPO YOU CAN'T SAY, BY THE WAY, IF YOU DON'T TAKE THE DEAL I'M OFFERING YOU NOW, WE'RE GOING TO DO AN IPO.
While it's easy to look askance at David Zwirner Gallery as a rampaging, behemoth hogging attention and garnering gobs of money, taking no prisoners and shoving smaller galleries aside, it's also hard to overlook the number of memorable, meaningful and beautifully installed (as in stop-you-in-your-tracks beautiful) shows that have been held there, including the 2017 exhibition of Asawa's hanging sculptures, which brought this wonderful, way under-recognized artist — the daughter of Japanese immigrants, she and her family were internees in a despicable Arkansas internment camp during World War II — to the forefront and was one of the top shows in New York that whole year.

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