take offense

1. Feel resentment or emotional pain, as in I didn't realize he'd take offense when he wasn't invited. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

Michael Burry had to resist his urge to take offense.

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Conflict-Averse Formalism: The second most common type of art in public, these works are most notable for being inoffensively pretty at a time when people can take offense at anything.

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Which would sort of make sense, if machines could actually take offense at anything.

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She’s an artist now grappling with the challenges of playing "full on" in a way that accommodates the vicissitudes of aging and the demands of critics and fans who seem to take offense when a female artist is no longer 25, the ones complaining on Reddit fan forums that she’s “changed” from who she was 30 years ago.

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She had only just started wearing jeans, she told me with a shy look, afraid that he would take offense to such a digression.

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