Associations to the word «Asquint»

Adjective

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Wiktionary

ASQUINT, adjective. Looking sideways, as though warily.
ASQUINT, adverb. With narrowed eyes.

Dictionary definition

ASQUINT, adjective. (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".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca