take as an insult
Example Sentences
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Most of the best things anyone’s ever said about Azoff are statements a man of less-bizarre spirit would take as an insult.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2020
The U.S. ambassador to Chile said that Pinochet might take as an insult any inference that he was connected with assassination plots.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2010
So what you might think is funny, somebody else might take as an insult.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
I am sure that that is a fair basis—" "On the contrary," said Montague, "it's a basis the suggestion of which I take as an insult.
From The Moneychangers by Sinclair, Upton
