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
Whenever persons come to suspect each other, they take amiss everything even that is done in their behalf, and yield wholly to their belligerent instincts.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
He certainly will not take amiss my sending him the part.
From Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 by Köchel, Ludwig Ritter von
I will never take amiss anything they may say or do; and they will behave in the same way to me.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
I hope he did not take amiss this national reflection.
From Life of Adam Smith by Rae, John
