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"take offense" Definitions
  1. to become angry or upset by something that another person has said or done : to be offended by something

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"Lots of people take offense to the pin," Goodwin explained.
"I take offense to that on their behalf," he said.
Ms. Newbold, in Army fatigue pants, seemed to take offense.
Do not take offense to the new way of doing business.
I've seen several comments that take offense at the suggested comparison.
Some viewers may take offense at the way Harley is depicted.
Has the internet made people quicker to take offense at jokes?
Let's hold off on the hair-trigger instinct to take offense.
Hatch also is hardly the first GOP lawmaker to take offense.
And whenever you can choose not to take offense, please do.
Ultimately, I thought people might take offense, so I decided not to.
Everyone, do not take offense to the new way of doing business.
I couldn't help but take offense to the jeers towards his weight.
We're going to totally understand, and we're not going to take offense.
There is no moral reason; no one could take offense at it.
Still, you take offense the one time she forgets to invite you.
Something during a transaction made her take offense, though what remains unclear.
But many other Hasidim take offense at portrayals of their schooling as deficient.
But what if it's important, and what if the person could take offense?
Only once in five years did someone take offense to me drawing them.
They may take offense at your allegation or simply ask the girl directly.
Joe Biden dares to take offense at those who specialize in being offended.
Knowing that, it's difficult not to take offense at the "workplace misconduct" euphemism.
I can't imagine why you would say that, so I take offense at that.
Contemporary feminists, by contrast, are more likely to take offense than to give offense.
" Latifah told PEOPLE Now that "I [take] offense to him saying 'sons of bitches.
So, that word, exploitation, I take offense to with any attachment to Gordon Parks.
Lawmakers take offense Kelly's comments drew condemnation from both sides of the aisle Tuesday.
In this one, every reader is sure to find something to take offense at.
Clinton would continue President Obama's deportation policy, he appeared to take offense to the question.
" Host Robin Baumgarten then told Katebi: "A lot of Americans might take offense to that.
Zimbabweans, many of whom are devoutly religious and culturally conservative, often take offense at profanities.
Or maybe Pablo didn't take offense simply because it wasn't a name from the village.
"Everyone, do not take offense to the new way of doing business," the message reads.
"I take offense when otaku are criticized by non-otaku," he stated in a 2003 interview.
Or will they take offense to his "there's really nothing I can do about it" attitude?
"It sounds to me like he is looking for some way to take offense," he said.
As a Montrealer, I take offense to that, because we think we have the best ones.
But most supporters of the Thai team declined to take offense or wallow in national angst.
Mr. Eldreth understands how black people might take offense at a Confederate symbol like the flag.
"Islamic" refers to the religion itself, and many Muslims take offense at associating their faith with violence.
" The insider adds: "Even when a member of the public doesn't curtsy, the Queen doesn't take offense.
He told Reuters that he doesn't take offense to Trump's hard stance on Muslims entering the United States.
"How can you take offense to that, especially when they act cute when they do it?" he says.
Will starts off stutteringly, then takes flight: Why take offense, that this dull brainDoth foolishly wish to entertain?
I loved you, also didn't take offense to the dreads, but your comment was redundant and ignorant. Shame.
Plus, if a negotiator is overly competitive, the other party may take offense and choose not to continue.
"When I read these stories that there's this hollowing out, I take offense to that," Mr. Tillerson said.
More significantly, mainstream readers who hear of or see the tweet out of context might easily take offense.
Still, it's easy to understand why some Canadians might take offense to the implication in the Times tweet.
Pisces wants slack after sharing their deep, dark trauma, but take offense if someone else does the same.
Now imagine she's a boss who's so chill, she doesn't take offense when you turn her into a piñata.
" The Sons of Liberty didn't go, "Let's not toss that tea into the harbor; the British may take offense.
He commits his first slew of murders because three Wall Street-type men take offense to his Tourettic laughter.
It's not coming from the right place, and that's why I take offense to it: because there's no love.
You start to be more likely to take offense where none was intended, and to be afraid of strangers.
Or maybe my attitude has just changed and I've stopped paying attention to the idiots who do take offense.
"As a regulator, I take offense to the fact that we're approving this fight for fiduciary reasons," Bennett said.
Kim might well take offense at the hardnosed U.S. approach after he released American detainees and destroyed a nuclear site.
"We are deeply sorry to anyone who may take offense to this specific post," the company said in a statement.
"A Christian myself, I take offense to reading such unbelievable lies from a publication alleging Christian ties," Mr. Husted said.
As I grow older, and begin to wince at my own younger self, I am less inclined to take offense.
So next time someone argues that: "Yeah, but [insert rigorously tested idea here] is only a theory," don't take offense.
Trump had, by all traditional markers, a lousy debate performance, incoherent at times and far too quick to take offense.
I also kind of take offense to Motorola putting a micro USB port on the G33 Play instead of USB-C.
"Only the ones that I know, and only the ones that I know would not take offense to it," he said.
Sudeikis' Biden is a bumbling career politician who remains clueless as to why anyone would take offense to his handsy approach.
And people often take offense to the suggestion that something they like is no longer acceptable by the public at large.
Stan Shaw, 64, a U.S. Army veteran, said it appeared the challengers were going out of their way to take offense.
This is where we are now: building coalitions around causes, often with those to whom we take offense or even despise.
What's more, they often take offense where it's not intended, meaning they're constantly hearing people say, "That's not what I meant!"
When we take offense, we're in [a] reactive mode, and we miss opportunities to ask people why they believe what they do.
And he builds most of his projects outside the country for fear that Saudi customs agents will take offense and impound them.
" Mr. St. Surin seemed to take offense, "as if I am a child that needs to be lectured on integrity and virtue.
I hope he doesn't take offense while I pick apart his defense of what is, in retrospect, an inferior and sometimes laughable film.
He was a huge role model growing up," Mendes, 18, tells PEOPLE of Bieber, adding "I didn't take offense to any of it.
Omar's remarks at the panel did acknowledge, to be clear, that it's important to be sensitive when Jews take offense at her comments.
The federal government is effectively rejecting those votes by going after legal pot in those states — and voters could take offense to that.
But I decided if a hiring manager would take offense at me doing external research, then it wasn't the right place for me.
"I would feel that they would take offense if they didn't want to share the grant, and then I FOIA'd anyway," he said.
Joc says if it had been him, cops would have pulled their guns instead -- but the cops take offense to the rapper's comment.
Gamers, and PC ones especially, tend to take offense at what are seen as transparent crash grabs at the expense of the consumer.
However, given the current caustic political climate, it's likely that at least some viewers will take offense with the series and its protagonist.
But it's also because many people, including many women, find it prissy and uptight to take offense at bad words and sexual vulgarity.
Unlike Reggie (Marque Richardson) in Dear White People, Jerrod doesn't take offense, or even pause, at a white friend's use of the slur.
As a presidential candidate, Trump called Mexicans "rapists" and "murderers," causing the Spanish-born chef who specializes in Mexican food to take offense.
The federal government would be effectively rejecting those votes by going after legal pot in those states — and voters could take offense to that.
When I asked if Citizen is just a glorified police blotter, its founder issued a strong defense, seeming to take offense to the question.
Some would take offense to that term, but it is a proud tradition within combat sports and Cerrone is the best kind of gatekeeper.
We—kinda take offense to the implication that we are-- I guess playing with numbers or not disclosing information that we should be disclosing.
Fithian's journal reveals the tutor's somewhat prim view of Southern roughnecks, who he believed were far too energetic to take offense at the slightest insult.
And college kids as well as adults generally must be taught -- taught -- to consider the sensitivities of people who might take offense for good reason.
Apparently the real New Yorker did not take offense, because his first job out of college was as an assistant to the magazine's art editor.
Today, the politicians in power take offense at any cultural criticism as if their actions are preordained and as if those actions are inherently Jewish.
Although you might want to refrain from admitting to your mooning, unless you know the person on the other end of the line won't take offense.
"As the person responsible for putting you on RHONY, I take offense to you misrepresenting the truth & saying producers prodded you to drink," tweeted Frankel, 47.
Being slow to take offense when somebody says the wrong thing, quick to forget the transgressions of others and honest in acknowledging your group's past wrongs.
It screens provocative material — Muhammad cartoons, for example — with a warning that some may take offense, leaving them to see it or not as they choose.
The former Disney Channel star did seem to take offense to the fact that she wasn't tagged in a photo Minaj shared from the red carpet.
What undercuts or complicates this is that many of the site's more objectionable articles were written by people from the demographic most likely to take offense.
As someone bred with generations of apologetic discretion, it wouldn't occur to me to remark on someone's speech, or to take offense if they remark on mine.
Gerwig spoke about forgetting to thank Baumbach in her Golden Globe speech while accepting the award for best original screenplay, telling The View he didn't take offense.
It's pretty much guaranteed that you will take offense at some point, but also that you will be able to laugh off your discomfort and move on.
But Stefanie Groll, the head ecology and sustainability at the German Heinrich Böll Foundation, said some take offense at the suggestion that they should alter their lifestyles.
" Mr. O'Dowd said the Irish "take offense at the idea that corned beef is the same as what they had in the old days back in Ireland.
The Syrians are screened, and many sponsors and refugees take offense at the notion that they could be dangerous, saying they are often victims of terrorism themselves.
To the Editor: Bret Stephens is absolutely correct to take offense at anyone who called him an "affirmative action hire" when he became an Op-Ed columnist.
The past week brought intense focus on Kelly's tone-deaf dismissal as "politically correct" of the idea that African Americans take offense at white people in blackface.
"We kind of take offense to the implication that we are, I guess, playing with numbers or not disclosing information that we should be disclosing," Rodriguez said.
It sounds to me like he is looking for some way to take offense," McConnell said before reiterating "there is no way we won't address this problem appropriately.
People do feel strongly about what goes into their Bolognese, but it seems downright odd to take offense at an ingredients appearing in a majority of traditional recipes.
I can wake up, reflect on the previous night's shenanigans, and not be pulled into a paranoid spiral of Oh fuck... did that person take offense at that?
Ms. Abirafeh contends that Afghan women have always been conscious of their suffering, but take offense at the idea that they need foreigners to intervene on their behalf.
Accordingly, I take offense with the notion that banks should have the right to put cram-down arbitration clauses into every citizen's "hook up" to the payment system.
The White House repeatedly refused to mention Jews in its Holocaust remembrance, and had the audacity to take offense when the world pointed out the ramifications of Holocaust denial.
Buttigieg's comments have already sparked controversy from Bernie supporters and Democrats who take offense at the notion that Trump's win was rooted more in "economic anxiety" than racism. Rep.
As the distinguished speakers praised Bush, Trump couldn't have helped but take offense at some of the comments that he might interpret as barbed contrasts between himself and Bush.
A poll showed that nine out of 10 Native Americans don't take offense at the term "redskin," prompting a turnaround by a prominent critic of the Washington Redskins' name.
Yet I would imagine that even fanatical Janeites, as her most devoted admirers are known, will not take offense, once they get used to this production's audaciously high energy level.
That film is full of comedians who lament that too many people are too quick to take offense at jokes and that this threatens comics' ability to scrutinize difficult issues.
And of course, the President, who is notoriously thin-skinned and quick to take offense, often interprets fair criticism, petty snipes, and serious challenges as attacks that warrant public responses.
But another word "pyt" -- which sort of sounds like "pid" -- was recently voted the most popular word by Danes, beating out "dvæle" (to linger) and "krænkelsesparat" (ready to take offense).
But, a public school wouldn't be able to ban a student from wearing a Make America Great Again shirt, even in a school where many students would take offense to it.
Of course we sometimes lose potential customers from those who choose to take offense to our posts, but these aren't really the type of people we want occupying our 35 seats.
This is easy to do, because the list of sins to which one may take offense grows with each passing year, from the culturally appropriated sombrero to the traditionally gendered pronoun.
The president appeared to take offense at one questioner who suggested that the United States — and Mr. Obama's administration — had not taken seriously the issue of racial profiling, especially at airports.
Many Americans once defended the right of Nazis to march down Main Street; now defending the rights of people whose views we abhor has ceded to defending our right to take offense.
Our focus on microaggressions and other unintentional transgressions increases our sensitivity, which is not universally positive: sensitivity increases both our tendency to take offense and our self censorship, leading to authoritarian policies.
"I don't know you well, but I take offense in that comment," she told McLaughlin — once again bringing up Gunvalson's involvement in the cancer scheme run by her ex-boyfriend Brooks Ayres.
Though I take offense to his implication that little girls have embarrassing screams — shrill, maybe, but not demeaning – it's easy to understand why anyone would be starstruck by the Pitch Perfect star.
On the contrary, Saudi Arabia may actually take offense at Monday's telephone calls by Kerry to Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to urge calm.
The idea generally is that campaigns, like corporations, are basically built to apologize, walk back, and/or preemptively manage expectations so that the minimum number of voters take offense at any given thing.
People were always going to take offense, and there was always going to be some kind of repercussion, and so this is all going more or less the only way it could go.
Time and again, though, whenever they take offense from other religions, the right has demonstrated that their notion of "religious freedom" and "political correctness" have been built upon conservative lies and identity politics.
Time and again, though, whenever they take offense from other religions, the right has demonstrated that their notion of religious freedom and political correctness, have been built upon conservative lies and identity politics.
All of these struggle sessions play to the sound of chortling twenty-somethings, who have figured out that, in today's culture, the quickest way to acquire and exercise power is to take offense.
They strain to keep faith when the arbiters of moral and cultural acceptability, all of them self-appointed, insist both on their right to offend nearly anyone and take offense at nearly anything.
Peter explains that he couldn't not bring what Merissa said up, but Victoria continues to take offense that he would do this before meeting her family, as if there was any other option.
The Yankees, in contrast, have thus far steered clear of any testy conflict in the division — perhaps because, for the first month of the season, they have found few reasons to take offense.
Depending on their ideology, some in the region despise Russia for its campaign of airstrikes it began last September while others take offense to disapproval of Kadyrov, who is criticized abroad for his brutality.
After one man on Twitter repeated that it was irrational for any one woman to take offense at a discussion of women's characteristics "on average," I responded: I teach probability and statistics at Stanford.
However, Mr. Thackray was such a gentleman in his choices that you'd have to be a real Scrooge to take offense at the twists revealed (although, you know, Scrooge actually became a nice guy).
But the thing we take offense to is sexy costumes that are also so ubiquitous that you're pretty much guaranteed that a half-dozen other women at your party will have the same one on.
Director Olivier Assayas – with whom Stewart worked on Clouds of Sils Maria, which nabbed Stewart a Cesar Award in France – discussed the mixed reaction to the film, saying he doesn't necessarily take offense to it.
"I wonder whether this plan is an opening salvo from the governor to the board ... or whether the board will take offense to this plan, because it ignores the guidance they've previously provided," Tawil said.
But at the same time, the authorities stifle free expression by enforcing the criminal defamation law against citizens who protest government policies, complain about company practices or take offense at sexual harassment in the workplace.
Ms. Kitchener and Mr. Marshall wrote their own vows; Mr. Marshall's included a promise that, on rare occasions when he offers her edits on her articles and she rejects them, he will not take offense.
But to Bagel Express, lest you take offense at our forced betrayal, know that you will always have a special place in our hearts, and the title of best New York City bagels in our minds.
So, I think people are very quick to take offense when they see applications of that that they think they can portray as problematic, but, honestly, that's just a foundational tenet of the socialist political worldview.
The fear is still there — that someone will take offense, get angry and attack me, or that I'll be made to leave a business, that I'll be accused of sexual misconduct, arrested and sent to men's jail.
When a cast member at the hit Broadway play "Hamilton" made a public post-show plea for Vice President-elect Mike Pence to keep all Americans in mind, Trump couldn't help but take offense, in the Twittersphere.
Some at the time claimed that the organization's decision to criticize candidate Trump was taken to alleviate tension that might arise with an African-American community who might take offense at Trump's barb at the first black president.
He has a hint of heart, as well as a cruel, predatory streak that the Safdies' expose for shocks and laughs, daring you to either take offense or take the joke, and banking on your queasiness in either case.
And while I personally don't mind it, I can imagine some folks make take offense to Sony's new three-sided bezel design, which features slim bezels on the bottom, left, and right, but countered by a relatively large forehead up top.
As Mr. Spicer prepared to return to Washington, he was asked if he was worried that Mr. Trump would take offense over the skit, which many viewers saw as lampooning the president's preoccupation with the size of his inauguration crowd.
Whether we realize it or not, these processes have radically transformed the ways in which we speak about and to one another and give and take offense, exposing far larger and more significant currents in our national political and social life.
A note that reads 'we do not accept visits, from today for the next few days, do not take offense but we protect each other' is seen on the door of a private home on March 9, 2020 in Venice, Italy.
Sometimes he deployed several dodges, one after another, in the tradition of William Caxton: information wants to be free; besides, people who take offense should blame the author, not the messenger; anyway, the ultimate responsibility lies with each individual reader.
So begins the horror story that isn't a story at all—but instead summarizes the rise of the alt-right, a nebulous political movement that simultaneously stands for xenophobic white nationalism and also for antagonizing those who take offense to xenophobic white nationalism.
American officials, as they have on a variety of rights issues in Uzbekistan, had advocated quiet diplomacy, lest the government of President Islam Karimov take offense or fear losing face in a public dispute, and retaliate by closing military supply routes to Afghanistan.
Even the seed entry at 215A was modern and ironic, and put me in a jestful mood while blogging — please don't take offense at the caption on the creepy photo above; sometimes a little fear can bring on the wisecracks, as you know.
Even those of us who're willing to make the trade-off of our personal information for more tailored, targeted services can take offense at the way in which we're being algorithmically nudged toward outcomes and then brazenly told it's what we want.
"President Donald Trump is unpredictable and quick to take offense, and treats trade as akin to a protection racket — first he increases the threat, in the form of tariffs and instability, and then offers to shield you in exchange for payment," said Lowe.
But she didn't take offense and decided to make the 15-hour trip in a van to Massachusetts to explain to people there that while some might have been mad starting in 2016, she had been mad for most of her life.
The reason most dancers take offense to this shoot, and other similar models-as-dancers moments, is because we know all too well the feeling of always being second-best, of training 10 times harder than the pretty girls, and watching them get picked.
"And when I read these articles that there's this hollowing out, I take offense to that on their behalf because the people that are serving in those roles are doing extraordinary work and they know they're not going to get the job permanently," Tillerson said.
Plus, it seems unlikely Michigan legislators will take offense to the subject matter: Legislation allowing licensed dispensaries to sell medical marijuana passed in Michigan in 2016, and a small college upstate, Northern Michigan University, recently added a cannabis major to its studies under a medical context.
In 2014, he says, he tried to explain to Chris Flint, then the chef de cuisine of Eleven Madison Park, that when servers referred tableside to the cylindrical grater they used — a Mouli — black customers might take offense because the word is similar to a racial slur.
Drawing in part on European examples, New York appointed its first night life mayor, Ariel Palitz, this year to promote late-night businesses and to try to relieve tensions with neighborhood residents who may take offense at the noise and vomit that often come with such establishments.
When it feels like just about every American rapper of note from the past few decades have compared themselves favorably to El Chapo, Pablo Escobar, and Tony Montana, one can't help but take offense at the idea that Latin trap artists should adhere to a different standard of legitimacy.
He felt bad about it," Geimer told the outlet, before adding: "He is sincere in his apology and I told him I felt my rape was being used to attack him by people who don't care about what happened to me, and I do take offense to that.
Kaplan Aktas from North Carolina thinks people are overreacting when they take offense: (This may offend some people, read at your own discretion.) Honestly, after reading this article, reading the story that follows it and an article named "Stop Telling Women To Smile", I just don't see it.
Well if they don't take offense to the startling homeless problem, the woeful lack of public oversight when it comes to the Los Angeles Police Department or the constant gridlock on the L.A. freeways, I guess that only leaves Trump's racism and misogyny to be concerned about right?
No matter who shoulders the blame for the North's nuclear status and the tensions that have arisen as a result, the fact remains that Pyongyang is a difficult regime to deal with, one that is quick to take offense and doesn't hesitate to rain artillery fire on the South.
Yeah and I think that it represents a dangerous narrative in the Valley that was — and I think you might take offense to this — that was largely cemented by Steve Jobs: That if you're a very talented person, you cement yourself as a genius if you act like an asshole.
Steven Levin, a former federal prosecutor and a registered Republican, says that he understands why some might take offense to Comey's phrasing as to who might be a "reasonable prosecutor" but he believes that Comey was trying to draw a distinction between those who exercise strong discretion and those who abuse it.
"He's one of those men who is explosively sexually inappropriate with everyone but makes you feel bad if you take offense, because he was just being fun ," she says, either unaware of the irony or just furious that he can get away with it, as a married man, while she's left exposed by similar behavior.
As soon as the picture went public, however, the context was completely lost in a sea of Twitter nonsense:InfoWars goes on to show some of the jokes people were posting on Twitter like this:And this:And this:But InfoWars seemed to take offense at the idea that Trump would be a part of some other-worldly ritual where a bunch of billionaire world leaders all touched a glowing globe together.

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