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asquint

[ uh-skwint ]

adverb

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


asquint

/ əˈskwɪnt /

adverb

  1. postpositive with a glance from the corner of the eye, esp a furtive one
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of asquint1

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

Origin of asquint1

C13: perhaps from Dutch schuinte slant, of obscure origin
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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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