You may have trouble looking directly at the human specimens onstage at the freak show, but you also won't be able to look away. Find a happy medium by looking askance, or subtly out of the corner of your eye.
To turn aside.
Adjective S.
(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"
Adverb
with a side or oblique glance; "did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"
Adverb
with suspicion or disapproval; "he looked askance at the offer"
adv.
Alt. of Askant
v. t.
To turn aside.
Askance
O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!
To turn aside.
Usage Examples
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