take exception
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To take offense; to object or protest.
verb
To object to; to disagree with.
Example Sentences
- "I think he took exception to the joke about environmentalists."
- "I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction."
- "I am sorry to learn that the senior medical staff of the Dreadnought Hospital take exception to portions of Sir Henry Burdett's letter […] which was published in the Times of July 11th."
- "In the same year, 1844, negotiations were begun to strengthen the North Union's position by an amalgamation with the Liverpool & Manchester and Grand Junction companies, but at the eleventh hour the shareholders took exception to the rather overbearing ways of the Grand Junction, and backed out."
- "[…] the body of a deceased Indian, wrapped in a blanket and reposing on the limbs of an old tree in the sandhills. Horatio Walker, then President of the Club and generally so sympathetic with artists, seemingly took exception to it, and Morris felt the silent criticism […]"
- "Upset, about 20 Kuala Lumpur-based judges met on 25 March and decided that Salleh should write to the king explaining their position. The king apparently took exception to the letter or to the manner in which it was sent […]"