take amiss


see take the wrong way.

Words Nearby take amiss

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How to use take amiss in a sentence

  • "Dear Johanna, you must not take amiss what he says," Helena began, with a furtive smile.

    A Noble Name | Claire Von Glmer
  • "Then I advise you to go and do likewise," rejoined his new friend with a geniality impossible to take amiss.

    The Thousandth Woman | Ernest W. Hornung
  • "I'm going to say something that you mustn't take amiss," he remarked, after a little pause.

    The Market-Place | Harold Frederic
  • I will never take amiss anything they may say or do; and they will behave in the same way to me.

    Voltaire's Romances | Franois-Marie Arouet
  • It would clearly be impossible to take amiss anything that this woman might choose to say.