umbrage

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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

Its orators were constantly giving umbrage to Napoleon. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Her robe barely covered her firm breasts and afforded no umbrage for the triangle between her legs. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
These enquiries naturally have his foes further umbrage, and they in return angrily discharge their venom at him. — The Life of Sir Richard Burton, Thomas Wright

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