take amiss
IdiomsExample Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
George R. Tracy San Clemente, Calif. Not all vegetarians would take amiss John Leo's remark about their preverbal innocence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strangely enough, it did not occur to the young scientist to take amiss the jokes that Doctor Wilhelm and the others aimed at him on that account.
From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold
Without beating about the bush, my dear," she began, "I'm here on a meddlesome business which you mustn't take amiss.
From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee
Why should my shepherd take amiss, That oft I wake thee with a kiss?
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst
Curlydown was a strictly hospitable man, and in his own house would not appear to take amiss anything his guest might say.
From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
