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As someone who writes and publishes for a living, I take exception to people who go out and make money based on fabrication.

I'm surprised that he's surprised that anybody would take exception to the story that he himself brought so fully into the light.

That even this worldly gentleman, Mr. Brindlock, should take exception to the courses of his son was a most startling fact.

I am one of the cloth, and might take exception to certain hints, perhaps, but these are dubious.

We must take exception, also, in conclusion, to the excess of alliteration.

Young men of the new social school might take exception to that old-fashioned democracy which had its apotheosis in Risler senior.

You may possibly take exception to the French rhyme, but you cannot fail, Charles, to appreciate the fine spirit of it.

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On this page you'll find 348 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to take exception, such as: hesitate, vacillate, waver, balk, cavil, and challenge.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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