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
But Green’s frustration subsided when he said on his podcast Monday that he saw the comments “through the right mindset, through the right lens” and decided not to take offense.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2024
“When people want to disparage anything about this damn town, I take offense to it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2023
“I take offense to the chairman pointing out all CEOs are corrupt because they’re millionaires,” he bellowed at Sanders, though this was not even close to anything Sanders had said.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 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
