take kindly to
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The sport didn’t take kindly to interlopers with no playing experience of their own bringing mathematics into a game that had been moving along just fine ever since the National League was founded in 1876.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Controversy: The movie was considered a thinly veiled swipe at real-life newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, who did not take kindly to the celluloid portrait.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
Verstappen did not take kindly to the penalties, and his race engineer Giampiero Lambiase told him they came after a lot of “whingeing”.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
“Judges aren’t going to take kindly to that no matter who they are.”
From Salon ● May 31, 2024
And while I can’t say I know her that well, Jupiter Charity-Sanchez doesn’t seem the type to take kindly to encroachments upon her territory.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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