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take amiss
verb as in misconceive
Strong matches
verb as in misread
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in misunderstand
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in resent
Example Sentences
Three more words about thee, the world will still not take amiss from me!
"Right, Brunck�; contradict me tomorrow at table, in the king's hearing, and I will reply in a manner which you must only feign to take amiss."
"Dear Johanna, you must not take amiss what he says," Helena began, with a furtive smile.
And the wretched Libor, bowing almost to the earth, made hurried answer, "How could I possibly take amiss anything that his Highness the Khan, my lord and master, may choose to do?"
It was a great relief to me to find that you did not take amiss what I wrote about wall painting, and that you quite understood that I could only become so wrathful regarding a matter which interests me in the highest degree.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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