umbrage

"Umbrage was taken over the programme he was watching on television.

The defendant took umbrage and assumed that was because (the woman) had been turning his daughter against him.

An eagle-eyed shopper at Morrisons in Rhyl took umbrage with one fellow customer parked across two bays.

The nicest thing you can do for these creatures is retweet them because they have no followers and therefore no audience until a kind celebrity takes umbrage and gives them one.

The left-handed batsman took umbrage at the suggestion that it is the increased depth of bats that is behind more fours and sixes being struck in one-day cricket.

Far from taking umbrage, the Queen of Hollywood agreed that older actresses shouldn't be surprised if they weren't cast as 21–year–olds.

UN chief flags rights abuses during meeting with Sisi in New York United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon lauded Egypt's regional role in recent months, as he discussed with Sisi pressing issues such as Gaza and Libya, but he still took umbrage with Sisi's human rights record.

FOR Liverpool supporters, Roy Hodgson's reign as England manager has been one long "I told you so." And this week, they were provided with more ammunition, as "The Average One" took umbrage at suggestions that England, in their win over Norway, were a little lacking in attacking excellence.

Next time someone takes umbrage at energy being produced near them, especially if it's fossil fuel or nuclear, just take a leaf from Mr Owen's book and tell the silly nimby to stop whinging and face reality....

IN response to an article I placed in You Say, and in the FeedBack (November 7), I stated charity begins at home, and Rosemary Wilson took umbrage to my comments.

I take umbrage with the new findings on family dynamics from research teams at Iowa State and New York's Cornell universities.

Albion bowling club members took umbrage and the row has continued ever since.