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Idioms and Phrases
Feel resentment, take offense, as in Aunt Agatha is quick to take umbrage at any suggestion to do things differently . This expression features one of the rare surviving uses of umbrage , which now means “resentment” but comes from the Latin umbra , for “shade,” and presumably alludes to the “shadow” of displeasure. [Late 1600s]Discover More
Example Sentences
Well, I would take umbrage (a thing at which I excel), but for the fact that Kaufman makes some excellent points.
He does not take umbrage at the incongruous presence of the housekeeper in a presidential suite that is still occupied.
It would be unjust to take umbrage at the city because one finds none in its avenues.
It was always done so quietly and pleasantly one could hardly take umbrage.
Perhaps there were not many men in the kingdom less given to take umbrage at trifles than my father.
These strenuous natures are apt to take umbrage at the fact of their work being interfered with.
But he was careful to let drop nothing at which she might take umbrage.
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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.
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