askant

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; - Elizabeth Bowen

Alteration of askance, apparently after aslant.

‘Forty-two,’ replied the driver, eyeing him askant. — The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
"Up all night, I presume," eyeing him askant. — Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter, Lawrence L. Lynch
In those old days female modesty was protected by a fan, behind which, and it was of a convenient semicircular breadth, the ladies present in the theatre retired at a signal of decorum, to peep, covertly askant, or with the option of so peeping, through a prettily fringed eyelet-hole in the eclipsing arch. — Complete Short Works of George Meredith, George Meredith

askance, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong

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