Askance
a·skance \uh-SKANS\
adverb
1. With suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval.
2. With a side glance; sidewise; obliquely.
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WOI - 0021: ASKANCE
[ Panel 1 ]
SMOKING GENTLEMAN: My wife has been looking rather ASKANCE over the NEW BABYSITTER I chose for our daughter.
BALDING MAN: WHY is that? Does she think you may cheat on her with the wench?
SMOKING GENTLEMAN: Haha, good one sir. No, she seems to have a SNAKY SUSPICION that the babysitter is up to NO GOOD.
[ Panel 2 ]
:: An dumpy looking elephant holds a female toddler in its trunk as it looks back with an expression saying something along the lines of “what?” or something of that sort. Animals are hard to read. ::
[ Panel 1 ]
SMOKING GENTLEMAN: My wife has been looking rather ASKANCE over the NEW BABYSITTER I chose for our daughter.
BALDING MAN: WHY is that? Does she think you may cheat on her with the wench?
SMOKING GENTLEMAN: Haha, good one sir. No, she seems to have a SNAKY SUSPICION that the babysitter is up to NO GOOD.
[ Panel 2 ]
:: An dumpy looking elephant holds a female toddler in its trunk as it looks back with an expression saying something along the lines of “what?” or something of that sort. Animals are hard to read. ::
That is a sketchy looking elephant.
SURE IS! I’d sure as hell never let it watch my child.
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man what has happed to the world when you cant even find one descent freelancing elephant anymore.i can remember a simpler time when you could tell if someone was gonna f*** you over but then again i also remember the civil war,yea thats right i’m an immortal that uses the internet eat-it nerds
Haha “descent freelancing elephant” classic phrasing my friend, CLASSIC phrasing.
you used “askance” as an adjective in that sentence of dialogue, and it is an adverb. a person can’t be askance. they can “look askance” at someone or something, but they are not themselves “askance”.
I’ll be honest, I struggle with adverbs… I can read and reread the definition of “adverb” over and over and don’t fully grasp them, BUT that’s sort of the point of this comic. I’m attempting to push myself as a writer… not only by improving the quality of my joke/story telling but by increasing my vocabulary and understanding of the English language… So I’m bound to make some mistakes along the way. Sorry about that, but thanks for pointing it out. I ended up using your phrasing in the script to correct it. I hope it’s used correctly now.