take at face value
Verb
Meaning
take at face value (third-person singular simple present takes at face value, present participle taking at face value, simple past took at face value, past participle taken at face value)
(transitive, figuratively) Accept as presented, without question or further investigation.
Synonyms: take on trust, take on faith
Antonyms: take with a grain of salt, read between the lines
Synonyms
Examples
It is hard to take at face value a narrator who heaps scorn on her country as much for its failed fascism as its food.
On Thursday, the Delhi high court appeared to take at face value the police claim that FIRs would be registered at an “appropriate time”.
Any more than in the case of the dam, Oromo students have little reason to take at face value what the government is saying or promising.
And they take at face value statements about the development of nuclear-capable delivery vehicles as a means to support a broader set of deterrence objectives.