Maana ya kamusi ya neno "kukosea" ni "kwa njia mbaya au isiyo kamili" au "isiyofaa au nje ya mahali". Inaweza pia kumaanisha "sivyo inavyopaswa kuwa" au "si kulingana na kile kinachochukuliwa kuwa sawa au sahihi".
1. What I cannot help taking amiss is that he charges me with being old and one-handed, as if it had been in my power to keep time from passing over me, or as if the loss of my hand had been brought about in some tavern, and not on the grandest occasion the past or present has seen, or the future can hope to see.
2. I take it amiss, too, that he calls me envious, and explains to me, as if I were ignorant, what envy is for really and truly, of the two kinds there are, I only know that which is holy, noble, and high-minded and if that be so, as it is, I am not likely to attack a priest, above all if, in addition, he holds the rank of familiar of the Holy Office.
3. He decided to brazen out the situation and, pretending nothing was amiss, headed straight for the gate opening on the garden of his lodgings.
4. But his mind was quick enough to realize something had to be amiss for an entire kingdom to be quarantined from the rest of the High Kanris.
5. Seeing nothing amiss, I turned my gaze back to the giant in front of us and said nothing as the monk and the armorer chatted the normal banter following a business transaction.
6. Something was amiss, but what it was eluded him completely.
7. When Charles died, I was more than happy for Baxter to step in and take over where his father left off, but it meant I had no clue anything was amiss.
8. Coryss noted nothing amiss as she unlocked the cabin door, the sheep lay quiet in their pen.
9. It took only seconds for them to notice something amiss, and they quickly retreated from the stairwell and ran back out the tower door.
10. A little something to fortify her nerves would not go amiss.