How To Use Umbrage In A Sentence
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However, nobody would take genuine umbrage at being described as a gurrier.
Irish Blogs
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He could behold beneath his eye, the lower part of the decayed village, as its ruins peeped from the umbrageous shelter with which they were shrouded.
Saint Ronan's Well
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On a terrace beyond the ravine an umbrageous oak spreads his great boughs indulgently beside the sombre Persian forms.
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Senator Vanstone took umbrage at this remark, describing his comments as ‘extraordinary’ and ‘indicative of an attitude’ at the ABC.
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No sooner was he ensconced than he was verbally abused by an irate customer who had taken umbrage because he (our reader) was not wearing socks.
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When they tried to get him to take a pay cut in 1887 to reflect his diminished ability, he took umbrage at the perceived insult and retired.
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It was one of those days in June, in which our summer-hopes take umbrage at what we call unseasonable weather, though no season was ever known to pass without them.
The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies
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Republican Representative James Walsh and New York Secretary of State Randy Daniels took umbrage at Cuomo's comments.
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She had been abominably uncivil to him, and she would not be surprised if he took umbrage.
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Seems that some conservatives took umbrage at comments by the writer Joe Staten.
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I did want to take a moment to point out how the reviewer takes umbrage with my usage of the word "golem" instead of "zombie".
An interesting bad review...
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Having arrived at my destination, I sought out the Eastergate, a dirty street inhabited by poor people, mounted three pair of stairs till I saw through a slate-pane, knocked at a door, and was met by a woman, with an umbrageously bearded face peering out from the side of her head-gear -- that is, there was a head there in addition to her own.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII
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And stripp'd the groves of their umbrageous honours,
The Lake of Geneva
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• Government workers under political fire: More and more, when politicians talk about government employees - whether they are federal, state or local- it is with the kind of umbrage ordinarily aimed at Wall Street financiers and convenience store bandits.
Obama orders new federal breastfeeding policy
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article; and his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Quiller-Couch responded as I expected he would, drawing himself up with a look of outraged umbrage, or umbraged outrage.
Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids
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TONY SNOW, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: It seems to that that there is a lot of umbrage taken with the term slam dunk.
CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2007
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Ever a stickler for protocol, he and his wife took umbrage at the democratic etiquette of President Thomas Jefferson's administration.
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A halt was called for lunch under a blue pine, where we quickly discovered how paltry its shade is in comparison with the generous screen cast by a chenar; scarcely has the heated traveller picked out a seemingly umbrageous spot to recline upon when, lo!
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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The victim's daughter, Peggy Puckett - in every other respect a model of forbearance - took umbrage at that, retorting that her father ‘hasn't said anything like that’.
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At one point, he took umbrage at a journalist who dared to suggest that he was a ‘lucky’ manager while his discomfort in the aftermath of the French match was clearly visible to everyone at the press conference.
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umbrageous at the loss of their territory
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Alchemy, as we all know, was a deadly offense in the eyes of the Inquisition who, incidentally, no doubt would have also taken great umbrage at Newton’s antitrinitarian heresies.
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The umbrage came from the tree like a dark cloud.
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One of the lads took umbrage at this public affront to his manliness and duly acknowledged the driver with a hand signal that wasn't too friendly.
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Locals took umbrage at such castigation, and echoing the responses to the Wylde affair, many sought to re-affirm the respectability of the colony in the face of accusations that could be economically and politically damaging.
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More and more, when politicians talk about government employees - whether they are federal, state or local - it is with the kind of umbrage ordinarily aimed at Wall Street financiers and convenience store bandits.
Public servants feel sting of budget rancor
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India is rightly called the umbrageous land with great geographical and economic entity, ensconced in the swathe of cultural unity amidst diversity held together by the strong and invisible threads of veneration and love amongst the people.
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In Shakespeare's day the groundlings were a lot more unruly, and you could say that that actress wasn't being sincere or true to her Shakespearean traditions, taking umbrage at a harmless bit of tom foolery that wouldn't have caused Richard Burbage to drop so much as a single iamb from To be, or not to be.
Lance Mannion:
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More and more, when politicians talk about government employees -- whether they are federal, state or local -- it is with the kind of umbrage ordinarily aimed at Wall Street financiers and convenience store bandits.
Rep. Gerry Connolly on government workers under political fire
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He's like you, forever taking umbrage about something.
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cool umbrageous woodlands
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He put the roses in his breast and they walked on for a little while, slowly and silently, under the umbrageous trees.
Little Dorrit
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Martial, however, was one of those men who are capable of reckoning on the future in the midst of their intensest enjoyment; he had already learned to judge the world, and hid his ambition under the fatuity of a lady-killer, cloaking his talent under the commonplace of mediocrity as soon as he observed the rapid advancement of those men who gave the master little umbrage.
Domestic Peace
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I have taken great umbrage at the portrayal of scientists as unscrupulous and unethical.
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-- The same base stratagem for annoying those against whom they have taken an umbrage is practiced still by choking the wells with sand or stones, or defiling them with putrid carcases.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Indignant, umbrageous, and unwilling to accept responsibility for his own (dire) socioeconomic predicament, Right-I languishes behind the counter at a retail chain, wondering aloud why others have eclipsed him.
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But many neighborhood mothers took umbrage at the implied criticism of how they handle their children.
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Accordingly some of the Dukes of Newcastle have possessed considerable influence here, which has given great umbrage, and been strongly animadverted upon by those politically opposed to that party.
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The earl, my father, chose to take umbrage at what he called my disreputable --
Self-Raised
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You’ll get bonus points if you fit in the words umbrage and pigsney.
Looking At and Looking Out for Each Other
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He was "umbrageous," ready to be discomposed by the action of others, but, if not vexed or startled, he was elaborately courteous.
Henrik Ibsen
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There is a big ego at work here, one that takes umbrage at being patronised and is not averse to bad-mouthing anyone he deems incompetent.
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
Hamlet
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The jungle is the home of giant gums and dense myrtle, of umbrageous fig and tall palm, of sassafras and supplejack.
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In other words, its typical liberal handwringing, umbrage-taking and chicken littling over nothing.
"Surprised" Hildebrand Responds To Critics: "I Don't Regret Any Of It"
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Charming houses stand in the "dells," that is, in the umbrageous cul-de-sacs where the graded streets terminate in bluffs too bold to be penetrated.
After the Storm: A Story of the Prairie
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The newly-awakened sheep bleated from the hills, and the umbrageous herbage, dropping dew, seemed glittering with a thousand fairy gems.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The Home Secretary took umbrage at the suggestion that his son had told him what to do, as opposed to taking a filial interest in his work.
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article; 25 and his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his semblable26 is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, 27 nothing more.
Act V. Scene II
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There's no emotion or umbrage here or even shit-picking attached to telling you that when I read "harangue" I assume "bombastic ranting," which is not my connotation, but a standard and prevailing definition of the word "harangue.
Readercon 16: Day 1
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And wide out-flings, like mighty wings, its arms umbrageously.
Rookwood
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Caribbean countries said they took "umbrage" and wanted to "put on record" their strong disapproval.
Joe Amon: The Beginning of the End for the War on Drugs?
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The umbrage of the tree didn't prevent the blinding light of the sun from getting to my eyes.
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I would avoid all reflection, or any thing that may tend to give umbrage; but there is in this army from the southward a number called riflemen, who are as indifferent men as I ever served with.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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As for the stuff about living aborad, I take great umbrage at someone who admits to spending two weeks a year in this country and paying no taxes here lecturing me on how localy elected councillors should spend money.
What really undermines politics are false front organisations
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How perfect is the verdure -- how rich the blossoming shrubberies that screen with verdurous walls from the possibility of intrusion, whilst by their own wandering line of distribution they shape and umbrageously embay, what one might call lawny saloons and vestibules -- sylvan galleries and closets.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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The tree has a similar umbrageous habit to other Melia azedarach and will grow to 10m height and 8-10m spread.
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They had for a long series of years been debarred from the privilege of religious worship, and as there was reason to fear that a continued neglect of divine ordinances would draw down upon them the judgments of offended heaven, they begged permission to go three days 'journey into the desert -- a place of seclusion -- where their sacrificial observances would neither suffer interruption nor give umbrage to the
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In part, Jansen's relationship with McCann broke down because the Dutchman took umbrage at being asked to grade his squad members from A to E, a move designed to allow the club to assess each player's importance.
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In Shakespeare's day the groundlings were a lot more unruly, and you could say that that actress wasn't being sincere or true to her Shakespearean traditions, taking umbrage at a harmless bit of tom foolery that wouldn't have caused Richard Burbage to drop so much as a single iamb from To be, or not to be.
Lance Mannion:
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More and more, when politicians talk about government employees - whether they are federal, state or local- it is with the kind of umbrage ordinarily aimed at Wall Street financiers and convenience store bandits.
Government workers under political fire
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While the zoot suit eventually attained widespread popularity in the mainstream, it also became a pejorative synonym for "Mexican" on the West Coast as some Americans took umbrage at so many able-bodied young men who were not "helping to win the war.
From Zoot Suits to Border Walls
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There I saw the first olive tree ever planted in Australia; the Cork-tree in luxuriance; the Caper growing among rocks, the English Oak, the horse chestnut, broom, magnificent mulberry trees of thirty-five years growth, umbrageous and green, great variety of roses in hedges, also climbing roses.
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
Hamlet
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In fact, Ms Harney took umbrage at the assertion that Moy Chocolates, the brand stocked on board the Gulfstream IV, were her favourites and wanted it made clear that she doesn't even eat chocolate.
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Such applications, especially on this continent, are so astounding -- they spread themselves so largely and umbrageously before the public eye -- that they often shut out from view those workers who are engaged in the quieter and profounder business of original investigation.
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
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Dame Angela Lansbury took umbrage at the sun and forced her large pair of Jackie O sunglasses up her nose with the palm of her hand.
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Thus pre-vindicated, any troublemaker can now articulate his freedom of umbrage, on the grounds that he was incited to violence by a poem, novel, painting, play, or critique.
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Under an oak tree's umbrage I dried the damp away.
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Some of you took umbrage at the content and tone of my column entitled ‘Three genres of women,’ published in the September 24 edition of Imprint.
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She rested beneath the umbrage of the old oak.
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Sometimes it feels as if we could be in northern Florida, or maybe even southern Ohio, following backcountry tributaries through the umbrageous boondocks -- searching for beer and sniffing out adventure.
S.D. Liddick: COP Haditha
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There was a silly argument and Coleman took umbrage at Mr Clarke's tone of voice.
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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Unfortunately there was a real (fairly minor) artist named Fitzgerald who took umbrage at the book and sent his lawyers to have it pulped.
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The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun.
The Redemption of David Corson
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General George S. Patton, for instance, took umbrage at the portraits of slovenly and sardonic warriors.
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A broad, umbrageous mass of green clothed the lower buttresses, and fringed itself away in clusters of coco palms.
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A caller to a phone-in which I heard yesterday took umbrage at the underhand tactics employed by Nasa.
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How perfect is the verdure -- how rich the blossoming shrubberies that screen with verdurous walls from the possibility of intrusion, whilst by their own wandering line of distribution they shape and umbrageously embay, what one might call lawny saloons and vestibules -- sylvan galleries and closets.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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You see, the Governer of Jamaica lived just up the road at King's House, and his wife, a white woman from England, took umbrage at this impudence.
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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Still dazed, I was sitting outside under the umbrage of a tree by the entrance.
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A lot of people have gotten to the step of being emotionally invested in umbrage and are displacing the hostility of feeling like one is being deliberately ignored by those in power against the democratic party and even if the leaders wanted to throw some red meat to placate them and tell them they are heard, Presidents Lieberman and Nelson will take the opportunity to essentially speak for the Democratic Party and publicly try and ruin it for the sake of pissing on said base and thus retaining the love of the current media environment.
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article; and his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
