The Collaborative International Dictionary
To take an act thing amiss
Amiss \A*miss"\, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.] Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?
--Shak.
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss.
--James
iv. 3.
To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at; to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.