take kindly to
Example Sentences
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But Dahl doesn’t take kindly to being managed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Amazon’s investors, however, didn’t take kindly to its plans to ramp capital spending up by nearly 60% to $200 billion this year: On Friday, the company lost $124 billion in market value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Verstappen did not take kindly to the penalties, and his race engineer Giampiero Lambiase told him they came after a lot of “whingeing”.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
“Judges aren’t going to take kindly to that no matter who they are.”
From Salon ● May 31, 2024
The snakes liked to curl up in the cane and didn’t take kindly to being disturbed, so I wore boots.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
