HOW TO PRONOUNCE
umbrage
/ˈʌmbɹɪdʒ/
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What does umbrage mean?
noun
- A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
- A feeling of doubt.
- Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees.
More meanings (3)
verb
- To displease or cause offense.
- To shade.
noun
- (obsolete) Shadow; shade.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈʌmbɹɪdʒ/
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These enquiries naturally have his foes further umbrage, and they in return angrily discharge their venom at him.
Mr. Samuel T. Philander was too much relieved at the happy outcome to their adventure to take umbrage at the professor’s cruel fling.
More book examples (3)
Therefore, just and wise men take umbrage at his act, until after some little time be past: then they see it to be in unison with their acts.
Mr. Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.
One of the mildest mannered of the party took umbrage at the parsimony of the treasurer and knocked him down, whereupon the others in the party set upon the assailant and mauled him so badly that he had to spend three weeks in hospital.