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
What is there that I could take amiss in it?
From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. II. by Auerbach, Berthold
On my honour as a gentleman, I will never say another word that you can take amiss.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony
Strangely enough, it did not occur to the young scientist to take amiss the jokes that Doctor Wilhelm and the others aimed at him on that account.
From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold
I am sure I ought not to take amiss anything you say to me when you thus mistrust your own father.
From Edelweiss A Story by Auerbach, Berthold
