take kindly to

As an adult, I drove through the small towns of central and eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, feeling at home in areas even my white friends warned wouldn’t take kindly to “my type.”

“Judges aren’t going to take kindly to that no matter who they are.”

They didn’t take kindly to people pretending to be officers of the law.

"They will not take kindly to having been clubbed along with authoritarian countries like China."

When George and Harden did, Lue didn’t take kindly to their remarks.