'askance' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It is an adverb that means to look at someone or something with suspicion, disapproval, or unease, or with a sideways or oblique glance. Example sentence: She glanced askance at the stranger approaching her.
"It's like when we came in the 1990s, they looked at us askance.
In neighbouring countries, leaders watched askance, wary of the fancy ideas this precedent might give their own citizens.Kyrgyzstan's parliamentarians took all of two minutes to pass a new constitution on November 8th and cement their gains.
His more radical supporters demand that Mr Chávez oppose any attack on Iraq, and have looked askance at his current overtures to the United States, which include a promise to keep supplying it with oil.None of this amounts to credible evidence of presidential complicity in terrorism.
But that will be looked at askance in America, which frets that such expedient political alliances help explain why Mr Musharraf's prosecution of the war against Islamist terrorists is ineffectual.However, if Mr Musharraf wants a deal with Miss Bhutto, he will have to share power with her, perhaps as prime minister, a prospect neither he nor his party relishes.
American and British businessmen often look askance at continental European capitalism, in which labour has a say in the running of companies without risking any capital.In this section Basel brush Gun-shy Generali finale?
Small wonder he looked askance at his rewards an ambiguous shove that could be either upwards or downwards, plus an Order of the Fatherland (Second Class).
Mr Sumner considers it wasteful; the Austrians, downright harmful.Meanwhile mainstream economists continue to look at all the options askance, though not equally so.
The government has set them a target of getting half their profits from abroad in five years, up from 38% now.The Anglo-Saxon world looks askance at Mr Berlusconi's mixing of business and politics, and at the French phenomenon of pantouflage, in which senior civil servants move on to cushy jobs in business.
The Europeans are right to look askance at the looming crisis of succession in Egypt, beleaguered Israel, unborn Palestine, divided Lebanon, fundamentalist Islam in Morocco, bombs in Algeria, Muammar Qaddafi's bizarre Libyan autocracy, the risk that the Turkish courts declare the ruling party unconstitutional.
And conservative Minnesotans have tended to look askance at Hmong traditions such as polygamy and animal sacrifice.
Foreigners paid in yuan cannot do much with the currency and thus look askance at it.
