0 to feel upset or annoyed, usually because you feel that someone has been rude or shown no respect to you:
Similarly, the fact that umbrage occurs as the object of the verb take can be specified in its lexical entry.
What of believers of all stripes who quietly take umbrage to, and courteously protest, the expressions of disdain for their faith that they encounter when among antireligious company?
I am sorry that he took such umbrage at our raising this issue and cast aspersions on our purpose.
If a chief constable takes umbrage at a man and fines him, there is often no promotion for him.
I say that in no sense of complaint or umbrage.
I want to deal with this at the outset, without any umbrage at all, but just to make my own position quite clear.
Great umbrage was taken at that hypothetical threat.
Suppose that the committee or the officials of the society to which this man belongs take umbrage at his criticisms?
