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Asquint

adjective
1.
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy.  Synonyms: askance, askant, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty.  "Sidelong glances"






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"Asquint" Quotes from Famous Books



... envious, miserable, impious towards God, and dishonest towards men. He whose eyes are small and conveniently round, is bashful and weak, very credulous, liberal to others, and even in his conversation. He whose eyes look asquint, is thereby denoted to be a deceitful person, unjust, envious, furious, a great liar, and as the effect of all that is miserable. He who hath a wandering eye and which is rolling up and down, is for the most part a vain, simple, ...
— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous

... Whirling the stairdust, hazarding oblique, The moon safe in her pocket! See she treads Cool citric crystals, fierce pyropus stone; While crushing sunbeams in a triple line Smirk at the insane roses in her hair, And Strojavacca, frowning, looks asquint To see that trick of toe,—that dizened heel,— As she, the somewhat, hangs 'twixt naught and naught. A perfect Then,—a sub-potential Now— A facile and ...
— The Re-echo Club • Carolyn Wells

... men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being the good poet without being first a good man. (Dedication to ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge



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