TAKE KINDLY TO Definition & Meaning

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Be receptive to, attracted by, or pleased with, as in He'll take kindly to the criticism if it's constructive , or Henry won't take kindly to your stepping on his newly planted grass . This idiom uses kindly in the sense of “in a pleasant or agreeable manner.” [c. 1800]

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Controversy: The movie was considered a thinly veiled swipe at real-life newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, who did not take kindly to the celluloid portrait.

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As an adult, I drove through the small towns of central and eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, feeling at home in areas even my white friends warned wouldn’t take kindly to “my type.”

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“Judges aren’t going to take kindly to that no matter who they are.”

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They didn’t take kindly to people pretending to be officers of the law.

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"They will not take kindly to having been clubbed along with authoritarian countries like China."

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