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She took umbrage at his remark and stormed out of the room.umbrage = offense
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She is quick to take umbrage when someone critiques her work.
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would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.† (source)
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Burns, to whom I imparted my fears, chose to take great umbrage at them.† (source)
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Philander was too much relieved at the happy outcome to their adventure to take umbrage at the professor's cruel fling.† (source)
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As I understand from cook, m'lady, the animal appears to have taken umbrage at a lack of cordiality on the part of the cat.† (source)
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Had one suggested that he ever had been aught than the soul of honor and chivalry he would have taken umbrage forthwith.† (source)
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Therefore just and wise men take umbrage at his act, until after some little time be past: then they see it to be in unison with their acts.† (source)
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In what can an intendant, that is to say my subordinate, my clerk, give me umbrage or injure me, even if he is Monsieur Colbert?† (source)
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I wasn't sure what Jem resented most, but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose's assessment of the family's mental hygiene. (source)umbrage = offense
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Baboo, especially, took umbrage, and he led his littermates in savage charges, ignoring Edgar's protests until the marauders ran howling away.† (source)
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But should we take umbrage at the fact?† (source)
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You can always winkle out their birth names if you like, but they take umbrage if you use them.† (source)
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I take umbrage at this.† (source)
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It also included a flash of Adams's temper—in what he said in response to Pickering's umbrage over the impatience Talleyrand had expressed about the time the Americans were taking to get things moving.† (source)
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I take great umbrage at any implication from you that I have behaved in any way unbecoming.† (source)
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