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take exception

VERB
  1. raise a formal objection in a court of law

How To Use take exception In A Sentence

  • No one could possibly take exception to this Mathis infant.
  • I would not take exception to a member discreetly sucking a peppermint or a throat lozenge, but it should go no further than that.
  • Why did you take exception to what he said? He was only joking.
  • She ached to challenge it, to challenge him, to take exception to his peremptory dictates. DEVIL'S BRIDE
  • I take exception to the continued association between sex and naturism.
  • No one could possibly take exception to his comments.
  • Pete, however, seemed to take exception to being deprived of a chance to demonstrate his manly courage and kept shouting β€˜In the water, in the water!’
  • I take exception to Frank Abate's use of the term bizarre in conjunction with the place name HumpTulips, Washington [XVIII,2]. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4
  • It is worth reiterating that we do not take exception to two-step binding of myosin to actin.
  • It's not so much that they are lairy or rude or stare at people, they just tend to be a bit loud when hammered and some people tend to take exception to that.
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