asquint

American  

[uh-skwint] / əˈskwɪnt /

adverb

1. with an oblique glance or squint; askance; slyly; dubiously.

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asquint British  

/ əˈskwɪnt /

adverb

1. (postpositive) with a glance from the corner of the eye, esp a furtive one

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Etymology

Origin of asquint

1200–50; Middle English, equivalent to a- a- ¹ + squint, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

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 Norton, Charles Eliot

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 Eliot, Charles William

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

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 Lynde, Francis