askant

askant has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• adv.. Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.
• a.. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"