asquint
51sideways — Synonyms and related words: across, across the grain, aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope, asquint, at an angle, athwart, athwartships, breadthwise, broad side foremost, broadside, broadside on, broadways, broadwise, circuitously, contrariwise …
52skewed — Synonyms and related words: agee, agee jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, asymmetric, awry, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, deflected, deflective, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disparate, dispersed,… …
53squint — Synonyms and related words: aberration, cast, circuitousness, cock the eye, convergent strabismus, cross eye, cross eyedness, crosswiseness, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation …
54squinting — Synonyms and related words: agee, agee jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, astigmatic, awry, blink eyed, blinking, blinky, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, farsighted, longsighted, mope eyed, myopic, nearsighted, poor… …
55wry — Synonyms and related words: agee, agee jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, awry, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, cynical, ironic, skew, skew jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinting, wamper jawed, wrest, wring, yaw ways …
56squint — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cross eye, strabismus; peek, peering, glance. See vision. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. look askance, give a sidelong look, look asquint, cock the eye, screw up the eyes, peek, peep; see also glare 2 , look …
57squint — squint1 [skwınt] v [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: squint (of the eyes) [i] looking in different directions (16 21 centuries), from asquint across, obliquely (13 19 centuries)] 1.) to look at something with your eyes partly closed in order to see… …
58squint — [14] Squint is short for the now nearly defunct asquint [13], which may have been based on the ancestor of Dutch schuinte ‘slope, slant’, a derivative of schuin ‘sideways, sloping’. The origins of this are not known …
59askance — 1520s, sideways, asquint, of obscure origin. OED has separate listings for askance and obsolete M.E. askance(s) and no indication of a connection, but Barnhart and others derive the newer word from the older one. The M.E. word, recorded early 14c …
60squint — verb 1》 look at someone or something with partly closed eyes. ↘partly close (one s eyes). 2》 have a squint affecting one eye. noun 1》 a permanent deviation in the direction of the gaze of one eye. 2》 informal a quick or casual look. 3》 an… …
