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take offense



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Idioms and Phrases

Feel resentment or emotional pain, as in I didn't realize he'd take offense when he wasn't invited . [Mid-1800s]
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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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They don’t take pride where it’s due and take offense too easily.

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Small business owners and entrepreneurs in the South Asian communities may well take offense at the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the Left.

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The Chavez family letter expressed gratitude for those pallbearers, but noted that while other elected officials and future political candidates had been among them, “To our knowledge, none of them have featured images carrying the casket in their political campaign materials and promotions. We take offense at the use of such sacred moments purely for political purposes.”

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