ADJECTIVE
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(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
sidelong glances
her eyes with their misted askance look - affected by strabismus
How To Use squint-eyed In A Sentence
- Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
- Although the child squints, it must not be called squint-eyed, but love-eyed, and even a wart must be thought to become it. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost
- With squint-eyed innocence and un-metered awkwardness, Stewart delivers an unexpected hit performance that would later land him additional appearances in commercials and voice-over roles.
- But mostly change is subtle, almost delicate, and it is viewed most clearly not from the stand or drawing room but with a squint-eyed look from across the net.
- Four marines emerged on deck with a swarthy looking, squint-eyed pirate, his arms and legs in irons.
- I marched up to the porch, where a squint-eyed man asked, from around the cigar he was roughly smoking, if there was something he could help me with.
- He was a short, fat, squint-eyed, florid-faced, devious drone whose profession was administering linctus to racehorses: the kind of disaster only the Greens could rely on. Two For The Lions
- Squint-eyed and cunning, its tongue split like a wishbone, the canebrake sulls up, cursive spine and the diamonds in spiral like genetic code, and Joby frets the Stratocaster, its plastic the color of a salted ham. The Best American Poetry 2008
- His warder was a dumb dog, a squint-eyed Cerberus with what Count Victor for once condemned as a tribal gibberish for his language, so that he was incapable of understanding what was said to him even if he had been willing to converse. Doom Castle
- That bony, squint-eyed, curly-haired little sneak, attractive?