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take the wrong way



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No. I say things all the time that people take the wrong way, do I mean them, not always.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2021

This is one of the things Robbins fears the trolls on the interwebs might take the wrong way.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2018

The app could also block transmission of thoughts that aren’t really negative but that she might take the wrong way.

From Scientific American • Feb. 11, 2013

You Chartists are right: you have a right to votes, only you take the wrong way to obtain them.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

If we could not find the right way up some new mountain we could at least take the wrong way up an old one.

From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas