It is not a surprise that an acquaintance will take umbrage at a rude remark made carelessly. From LearnThat.org.
Caribbean countries said they took "umbrage" and wanted to "put on record" their strong disapproval. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Amon: The Beginning of the End for the War on Drugs?] Reference
So it's not -- it was not an uncharacteristic remark, and I think there is a certain amount of surprise that the French president took the kind of umbrage that he did. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2004] Reference
(NotionsCapital is campaigning to make "umbrage" a controlled substance), accusing Senator Obama of calling Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin a pig. From Wordnik.com. [NotionsCapital] Reference
"umbrage", "concern" and the threat of "grave consequences", followed by a whole lot of goodies finding their way into the Dear Leader's coffers. From Wordnik.com. [Canada Free Press] Reference
The umbrage is understandable but misses the point. From Wordnik.com. [The Fear Factor] Reference
He didn't take umbrage, he just started talking about it. From Wordnik.com. [Sydney Pollack, 73, Filmmaker, Actor] Reference
The admonishing domino, hitherto peaceful, now took umbrage. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Naturally, I take umbrage: Just trying to report the news, dear. From Wordnik.com. [Lost In The Big Blur] Reference
Gray also took umbrage at her attitude toward council oversight. From Wordnik.com. [D.C. school chief Rhee's next move probably toward the door] Reference
The baboons took umbrage, shall I say, when I improvised with them. From Wordnik.com. [As Nice as He Is Funny] Reference
However, you are well constituted to give umbrage to a poor husband. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The pleasures which my love afforded me could give umbrage to no one. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
Hippy gave her a quick keen glance, but Ginger, taking sudden umbrage at. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods] Reference
Coelho took umbrage; he thought he was better at that than the vice president. From Wordnik.com. [George W. Wins The 'Phony War'] Reference
Then, when the hard drive melts down and the machine fails us, we take umbrage. From Wordnik.com. [A Soft Spot For Hard Drives] Reference
It's hard to fault the Mexicans for taking umbrage at this Obama nickel-and-dime. From Wordnik.com. [Condescending to Mexico] Reference
As he gazed, however, a blithe sound startled him from the umbrage of the boughs. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
"What?" he rejoined, with more than a little umbrage I might add. From Wordnik.com. [The Maximum Security Book Group] Reference
Russia and France took umbrage at this high-handed proceeding and championed Greece. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
Danton, Barrere, and the rest were apparently astonished that umbrage should be taken. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
He did this with the usual lawyers 'skills, umbrage, charm and interpretation of events. From Wordnik.com. [Surprise, Surprise] Reference
From this it resulted that Hadidjé, Nazli, and Zouhra at last took umbrage at the success of. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
In fact, he takes umbrage at the notion that celebrities shouldn't involve themselves in the process. From Wordnik.com. [The Real McCoy] Reference
We should be thin-skinned, indeed, did we take umbrage at a book written in the spirit of Mr. Trollope's. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
He took umbrage and announced his international retirement in March, since when he has barely picked up a bat. From Wordnik.com. [Mohammad Yousuf chasing visa to return for Pakistan at Edgbaston] Reference
"It's not meant to micromanage the process in any way or to show umbrage at what the administration is doing.". From Wordnik.com. [Report: 'Stigma' at State Department for those seeking mental health treatment] Reference
Someone else took umbrage at this idea: How dare we look for redeeming features to such a deep personal tragedy?. From Wordnik.com. [David Suissa: A Flotilla for Gilad Shalit] Reference
If this realization is cause for umbrage among certain constituencies but brings positive change, then so be it. From Wordnik.com. [Offending for the greater good] Reference
In fact, it's so much smoother, I'm seeing my first wave of young people causing massive umbrage by going back in. From Wordnik.com. [What I've learned about teenagers] Reference
I take umbrage at the prominently displayed quote equating the power outage in Detroit with the sci-fi movie "Mad Max.". From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Coming Together The Day The Lights Wen] Reference
Quiller-Couch responded as I expected he would, drawing himself up with a look of outraged umbrage, or umbraged outrage. From Wordnik.com. [Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids] Reference
Even last week's specter of bank runs for the first time since the 1930s couldn't shift the focus from umbrage to substance. From Wordnik.com. [All Umbrage All the Time] Reference
The priests taking umbrage at this, laid an information against him the next morning, and he was committed to prison as a heretic. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Pique, umbrage, mingled in the expression which replaced all other feeling on the king's countenance as he heard this announcement. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
On July 4, 1816, at a public dinner, the postmaster at Baltimore proposed a toast which, by its disrespect, gave umbrage to the king. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
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