take offense

Michael Burry had to resist his urge to take offense.

Conflict-Averse Formalism: The second most common type of art in public, these works are most notable for being inoffensively pretty at a time when people can take offense at anything.

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

She’s an artist now grappling with the challenges of playing "full on" in a way that accommodates the vicissitudes of aging and the demands of critics and fans who seem to take offense when a female artist is no longer 25, the ones complaining on Reddit fan forums that she’s “changed” from who she was 30 years ago.

She had only just started wearing jeans, she told me with a shy look, afraid that he would take offense to such a digression.