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asquint
[ uh-skwint ]
adverb
- with an oblique glance or squint; askance; slyly; dubiously.
asquint
/ əˈskwɪnt /
adverb
- postpositive with a glance from the corner of the eye, esp a furtive one
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Origin of asquint1
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Example Sentences
Lucan has not spared him in the poem of his Pharsalia; for his very compliment looked asquint, as well as Nero.
I marked the row of weather-beaten faces pillowed on the gun-stocks with eyes asquint to sight the pieces.
When he has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
He,' indicating the sun, 'can only get at me asquint by that time, and I'm a match for him with my blue umbrella.
But I know that Providence looketh not asquint, but looketh straight out, and through all men's darkness.
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