not take kindly to sth
C2 to not like something:
After years of being looked after by his mother, he didn't take kindly to being told to cook for himself.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not liking
- abhor
- abide
- abominate
- antipathy
- averse
- go off sb/sth
- hate
- hate sb's guts idiom
- have a problem with sth/sb idiom
- have a thing about sth/sb idiom
- leave
- not know what sb sees in sb/sth idiom
- phobic
- problem
- put
- put sb off (sth/sb)
- see sth in sb/sth
- take against sb
- thing
- turn
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