asquint
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of asquint
1200–50; Middle English, equivalent to a- a- 1 + squint, of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Marcy Borders was a 28-year-old Bank of America worker when the photograph of her staring into the lens with her eyes asquint and her mouth agape was taken.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2015
There I beheld a one-eyed man asquint with a ruinous eye.
From The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes by Charles William Eliot
I marked the row of weather-beaten faces pillowed on the gun-stocks with eyes asquint to sight the pieces.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
Paul, who had recovered his legs, and now clung on by the table, looked an answer horribly asquint, as if he did not admire the joke; but he resumed his seat at the table.
From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat
Deem not in ambush here to lurk by night, Into the woman-state asquint to pry; A day-devourer, and an evening spy!
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
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