Verb
take kindly (third-person singular simple present takes kindly, present participle taking kindly, simple past took kindly, past participle taken kindly) [+ to (object)]
(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To like, accept or condone.
Most of the people I do business with are mature businessmen like me, and they are not going to take kindly to being spoken to like a wash woman in the street!! (to Saira Khan during a boardroom showdown). Alan Sugar
What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa. Akon
You're a dead man,” Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me. Patricia Briggs