0 to look at or think about someone or something with doubt, disapproval, or no trust:
The papers were about looking, but looking askance, like worldviews related, as if unwittingly, to architecture.
Everything that the purists look askance at has its place (and rightly so) in the terminology.
Sociologists don't look askance at ethicists who aim to guide human behavior.
Similarly, it was not the civic elite alone who looked askance upon the theatre.
In addition, the colonial government's commitment to free trade made them look askance at any suggestion of intervening directly in the economy.
Both of them restricted individualism to socially useful striving and looked askance at the self-expanding reveries of the romantics or the explosive enthusiasms of evangelicals.
Even if sections of the public would look askance, we must be able to guide the social habits of the country.
We should not look askance at those widows who are trying to maintain their independence.
