take offense

Example Sentences

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Robert and I enjoy comparing notes, but we don’t take offense or try to read some deeper meaning into these episodes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Which would sort of make sense, if machines could actually take offense at anything.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2025

Audrey smiled, but she’s been known to take offense when ElliQ is spoken to harshly.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2023

But Flash said workers at the sites visited by Scabby shouldn’t take offense, since the rat is protesting against contractors and companies, not the workers themselves.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023

I must learn to live without shadows as they do in Orgoreyn; not to take offense; not to offend uselessly.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin