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asquint

/uh-skwint/US // əˈskwɪnt //UK // (əˈskwɪnt) //

如同一个人,如同一个人一样

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : with an oblique glance or squint; askance; slyly; dubiously.

Examples

  • Lucan has not spared him in the poem of his Pharsalia; for his very compliment looked asquint, as well as Nero.

  • I marked the row of weather-beaten faces pillowed on the gun-stocks with eyes asquint to sight the pieces.

  • When he has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.

  • He,' indicating the sun, 'can only get at me asquint by that time, and I'm a match for him with my blue umbrella.

  • But I know that Providence looketh not asquint, but looketh straight out, and through all men's darkness.