Directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion (used especially of glances).
Sinônimos
Examples for "sidelong"
Examples for "sidelong"
1He was casting sidelong glances in the direction of the drawing room.
2Then it happened that she glanced sidelong, through the open south door.
3But the little god looking sidelong was mute in his grey regard.
4The young royalists were laughing and casting sidelong glances at the new-comers.
5Persephone freezes in place and glances sidelong at the Hand of Glory.
1Every year, we squint at Forbesmagazine's list of best-value actors and wonder.
2The inventors of this fluted window succeeded in making the heavens squint.
3If you squint and look at him another way, he's obviously Hitler.
4Before he left the chart-room Mayo took a squint at the barometer.
5I might as well take a squint at myself in the glass.
1As the world's largest democracy, India looks askance at Russia's authoritarian system.
2Looking askance at the world is what just might set Asa apart.
3He looked askance and discontentedly at Graydon during dinner in the evening.
4By the open gate the farmer stood eying his new material askance.
5There were many looking askance at me at court, I assure you.
1The money comes gushing in early and the limelight makes them squinty.
2The squinty-eyed boy looked to be a couple years older than Nick.
3She didn't recognize him either, with that scarred face and squinty look.
4Sabito squatted down to examine it, peering at it squinty-eyed from different angles.
5Is Olivia's squinty earnestness beginning to feel like a one-note performance?
1Lady Bassett drew back, and eyed her askant with amazement and terror.
2They went up, hand in hand, and often looked askant upon the road.
3Denys looked askant at Gerard, and not liking the theme, shook it off.
4Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
5The ass stopped munching, and looked askant at the Squire.
1When he has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
2The lights come up, he blinks, eyes asquint.
3I marked the row of weather-beaten faces pillowed on the gun-stocks with eyes asquint to sight the pieces.
4Orson swallowed, eyes asquint.
5And he to me, All of these were so asquint in mind in the first life that they made no spending there with measure.
1Except for one new squint-eyed stableboy, the household had not grown.
2O greatness of spirit no greater than that of the squint-eyed neighbour lady!
3Merry himself slew the leader, a great squint-eyed brute like a huge orc.
4Olyphant owns one the best squint-eyed stares in all of acting.
5He was hollow-chested, squint-eyed, and rather shambling, but spry enough withal.
6I'm not going to have that squint-eyed girl on the stage any more to-night.
7I'm going to take that boat, retorted the squint-eyed bully.
8But there were some others that were horrible: man-high, but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed.
9Confused, Jim stared squint-eyed at the Web page.
10The servant-girl, stout, squint-eyed, and red-haired, ran out.
11Jem, sitting beside him, was squint-eyed, miasmal, and mute, as he always was in the morning.
12You consarned, square-headed, stiff-legged, squint-eyed, lop-eared, four-flusher, you.
13Staples was squint-eyed and studying the church.
14The house doesn't look quite squint-eyed.
15They are called "long-legged," "thin-legged," "squint-eyed," or "big-headed."
16The main problem seemed to be an unexpected breaking-in period, a fug of jet-lag, sun-shock and general squint-eyed confusion.