Askance & Askant (續：新騙局 覬覦 單字大集合)

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–adverb 

1. with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval: He looked askance at my offer. 

2. with a side glance; sidewise; obliquely. 



Also, askant 



Synonyms:

1. skeptically, suspiciously.



　

Glass's enabler, the late Michael Kelly (Hank Azaria), is portrayed as a tough but tender, much beloved two-fisted editor. Missing is Kelly's near pathological loathing of Clinton, fed by Glass with bogus pieces on imaginary anti-Clinton committees, Monica Lewinsky brand condoms, and—published in George—a scurrilous hatchet job on Clinton crony Vernon Jordan. 



Although the movie is dedicated to Kelly's memory, the real hero is his successor, Chuck Lane (Peter Sarsgaard), who, terminally depressed, [looks] askance—literally—at Glass's copy and sighs, "It's weird." Lane served as a paid consultant to the movie and is understandably more sympathetic on-screen than his equivalent in the roman à clef for which Glass received a six-figure advance. 



Still, the Sarsgaard slow burn is only marginally more compelling than the Christensen simper; like its subject, the movie is self-important yet insipid. 







§ 淫穢

Debauchery



。調情

philanderer

lothario

a man who obsessively seduces and deceives women

and, of all people, the ageless, orange-hued [lothario] George Hamilton. 

A ruthless lothario, he becomes the [target] of a murder plot [concocted] by his long-suffering [invalid] wife Christina and his latest mistress, an [icy] teacher played by Simone Signoret.

mash

Tim encourages Francis to pursue Margie, at one point even sending her a [mash] note and signing his friend's name.

grope

to feel about with the hands, feel one's way

to search blindly or uncertainly 

Slang. an act or instance of sexually fondling another person. 



。覬覦

leer

a lascivious or sly look

I can't concentrate with you leering [at] me.

"strong, heavy ass that looked perfect in blue jeans" comes off a bit [leering],

ogle 

Uncle George got a black eye for [ogling] a lady in the pub.

Henrik, Egerman's son by a previous marriage, is studying theology, but he is constantly being [ogled] by Petra, the maid. 

This round and[ voluptuous] little French miss is put on spectacular display and is rather brazenly [ogled] from every allowable point of view.

squint

to look with the eyes partly closed.

to look or glance obliquely or sidewise, look askance.

He squinted through the [tele]scope.

The baby squinted its eyes at the bright [lights] 

Ellen Kuras' DV lensing is often momentarily blinded by [glare], as if [squinting] along with protags not at all sure where they stand. 

askant

askance

Chuck Lane, who, terminally depressed, [looks] askance—literally

peek 

glance quickly or furtively, 

esp. through a small opening or from a concealed location

[Close] your eyes. Don't peek. I've got a surprise for you.

Harron's biopic opens with a [peek] at the innocent raunch of mid-'50s Times Square. 



§ 詐欺

Cajole



。魚目混珠

adulterate

fob

a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc

fob off, to cheat someone by substituting something spurious or inferior, palm off

But of course, like most things... there's far more to it than meets the eye. I've seen the prints they fob [off] [on] people at the Rexall or Fotek. Milky, washed out prints. Too dark prints. There's no sense of reverence for the service they're providing for people.

foist

to foist [inferior] merchandise [on] a customer. 

to foist [political] views [into] a news story. 

Danny derides even the most eminent Jews -- Marx, Freud and Einstein -- for having foisted "communism, infantile sexuality and the atom bomb" [upon] the world. 

bogus

spurious, sham

what Jefferson was saying was, "Hey! we left this England place cause it was bogus. So if we don't get some cool rules ourselves... pronto, we'll just be bogus too."

Missing is Kelly's near pathological loathing of Clinton, fed by Glass with [bogus] pieces on imaginary anti-Clinton committees,

Local terrorists have a fish bowl of severed thumbs used to manufacture [bogus] votes.

When the British find the bogus passport request it's mentioned that it was applied for on July 14. That is Bastille Day, a national holiday in France that commemorates the storming of the French prison the Bastille (which signified the start of the French Revolution the end of the Monarchy in France).



。惡作劇之吻

escapade

a reckless adventure or wild prank

an escape from confinement or restraint

When they do [venture] out, it leads to some hilarious [escapades] with their wonder at the world and their complete break with convention.

I reaIIy shouIdn't be saying this to an outsider... but sometimes he's terribIy irresponsibIe, and gets into aII kinds of escapades.

shenanigans 

mischief, prankishness

deceit, trickery

[Halloween] shenanigans. 

The [he]-said, [she]-said shenanigans.

Milos Forman's first picture in seven years uses the [shenanigans] and occasional serious gestures of an unabashed pornographer to serve up a roller-coaster ride across,

No. I’m not playing devil's advocate at all when I say he's one of the more interesting screen [presences] working in the last couple decades; there’s something so watchable about Gallo. (I watch Trouble Every Day probably twice a year — [granted], the Tindersticks music doesn’t hurt.) I don’t care about his offscreen shenanigan[s]; the camera loves him.

Cogan moves with reliable precision to [restore] the status quo as ill-conceived capers and double-dealing shenanigans erupt into high-voltage violence.



。不誠實

polygraph

Did you give Mrs. Manion a lie detector test? Objection. A polygraph test is inadmissible evidence in our courts. 測謊器,複寫複圖器【醫】多種波動描記器



skulduggery

dishonorable proceedings, mean dishonesty or trickery

bribery, [graft], and other such skulduggery.  

mendacious

telling lies, esp. habitually, dishonest 

mendacity

Mendacity! Do you know what that is? It's lies and liars!



hoodwink

Why not pick out a particularly susceptible woman, then flatter her, [hoodwink] her and make her suffer?

snow job

But lest we think we're dealing with a [post]-Disney snow job

hokey

Lyle, I'm not gonna give you some hokey bullshit speech...

"Today is the SIXTH day of the SIXTH month of Nineteen-Seventy-SIX!" Hokey though it was, the gimmick worked quite well, as many a theatre patron literally "freaked-out" upon seeing those posters as they left the previews.

Viewed as a long dream sequence, but without any [self]-consciously arty tricks to detour it into hokey surrealism, it creates a Technicolor [chiaroscuro] that [jolts] you from cold darkness into bright sunlight without missing a beat.

hanky-panky

Sy Ableman. Not in the sense that... There hasn't been hanky-panky.

















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