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Example sentences for: umbrage

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Other critics rave that "one track after another leaps out at you until you've got 11 new favorite songs" (David Gates, Newsweek ), and that it's 1999's "most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album" (Chris Wilman, Entertainment Weekly ). One dissenter takes umbrage at Beck's heavy borrowing from black music: Mike Jenkins writes in the Washington Post that the album "can't escape its minstrel-show undercurrents" and that the album's genre-bending "stunts" sink Beck "deeper in stylistic debt than he can ever repay."
He is the master of umbrage.
DeLay has been taking sudden umbrage at accusations that he is a tool of corporate lobbyists.
Surely this "really great guy," the best boss you've ever had, could not be so unreasonable--or thin-skinned--as to take umbrage at your request for a whistle-free workplace.
and "Have a nice day" are obviously free of malicious intent and have virtually no semantic content, thus providing no basis for umbrage.