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
All of these were so asquint in mind in the first life that they made no spending there with measure.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Charles Eliot Norton
He,' indicating the sun, 'can only get at me asquint by that time, and I'm a match for him with my blue umbrella.
From The Pillars of the House, V1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
But the Muses and the Graces are his hard mistresses; though he daily invocate them, though he sacrifice hecatombs, they still look asquint.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
As Rutherford says in another letter, our tearful eyes look asquint at Christ and He appears to be angry, when all the time He pities and loves us.
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte
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