take amiss

1. see take the wrong way.

Example Sentences

Three more words about thee, the world will still not take amiss from me!

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"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."

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

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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?"

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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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Related Words

• confuse 
• miscalculate 
• misconstrue 
• misinterpret 
• misjudge 
• misread