We should not look askance at such a policy because of its potential shortfalls.

And if I'd said something completely bizarre he would have looked askance at me, and regulated the conversation.

We may well look askance at a lavish new concert hall, but not because the donor s name is chiseled into the marble façade.

But the snail replied Too far, too far! and gave a look askance Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.

Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals.