"take badly" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to react or respond negatively to something, often with anger or disappointment. Example: Tom took the news of his rejection from the job interview badly. He was visibly upset and didn't want to talk about it.
Officials in Aceh admit they are reluctant to take badly needed decisions such as how far back from the shore rebuilding can start until the plan is published.
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Indeed the Iranian people, while they might accept being bashed by the Great Satan (George Bush's America), they "take badly their country being perceived by the world as a sort of leprous regime of the North Korean type rather than as a great nation," Heisbourg points out.
More than 20 U.S. helicopters will ferry supplies ashore and take badly injured people to the George Washington for medical care.
Any of this could be taken badly.
This latest profits alert was taken badly by market-watchers.
5.15pm BST Nice to see a decent early start for Bill Haas, who took badly to having led this tournament overnight yesterday.
Anything close to the consensus projection is likely to be taken badly on Wall Street, cautioned P. Brett Hammond, chief investment strategist at the fund manager TIAA-CREF.
Mr. Durringer said that "around certain subjects there can be a kind of fear — when you are the director of a channel, you tell yourself that if it's taken badly by the Élysée, you're going to get fired".
The melting of the pack ice between the West and Tehran, in which this agreement was the first and most crucial step, was taken badly in Riyadh, and the ratcheting up of tensions stems from that event.
The decisions to raise stall rents, subject stallholders to "taste tests", and kick out some of the longest-standing traders were taken badly, and lawyers were called in on both sides.
