look askance at

idiom

: to be doubtful about
Most scientists looked askance at the new discovery.

Examples of look askance at in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But sentencing courts regularly look askance at relentless insistence of innocence after a jury decides otherwise. Ron Kuby, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024 Gottfried wasn’t the only German Jew to look askance at the Jewish Bildungsbürgertum and deem them complacent. John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 People tend to look askance at this, seeing it as another instance of her victim complex. Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024 One reason most Californians look askance at cash reparations is that this state was never a center of slavery. Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 9 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for look askance at 

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