take exception to

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to object strongly to sth; to be angry about sth

   No, I take exception to impugning my professionalism.

   I take exception to that

In the movies · 3

• No, I take exception to impugning my professionalism.Black Widow2021
• Confederates took exception to my capacity for killing emThe Hateful Eight2015
• He takes exception to this.Withnail & I1987
• I take exception to thatThe Hateful Eight2015
• "Advocating violence and assault is wrong," "and we in the law enforcement community take exception to such action."Straight Outta Compton2015
• Your cousin, my lady, takes great exception to your ill hours.Twelfth Night2012

Learn it in full scenes

• Twelfth Night2012
  • Orsino's Speech on Music and Love
  • Viola Disguises Herself as a Man
  • Sir Andrew Boasts About Dancing

From the same entry

• the exception that proves the rule
• make an exception
• with the exception of
• without exception