umbrage

Definition

A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

Etymology

From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "—He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip."
• "She looked very neurotic, moving in a jerky way, her body giving little twitches of habitual umbrage."