take amiss
Example Sentences
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George R. Tracy San Clemente, Calif. Not all vegetarians would take amiss John Leo's remark about their preverbal innocence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps he is armed with a club, and may take amiss the use of an instrument that has to be poked into his ears, or what not.
From Anthropology by Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph)
If you think the Dutch would take amiss our not applying to them, I will join you in the application.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
But before you go allow me to offer you a suggestion which I am sure you will not take amiss.
From A Castle in Spain A Novel by De Mille, James
This was one of those enigmas in which the Delphian oracle usually spoke, saying things with a double meaning, and which men were apt to take amiss.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
