The queen took umbrage at remarks made in the press about her insensitivity to the death of the princess.
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Umbrage
/ˈʌm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
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Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.
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—He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
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She looked very neurotic, moving in a jerky way, her body giving little twitches of habitual umbrage.
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