qualm
IPA: kwˈɑm
noun
- A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
- A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
- (now chiefly in the negative) A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.
- (archaic, UK dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
- (archaic, UK dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
verb
- (intransitive) To have a sickly feeling.
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Examples of "qualm" in Sentences
- My qualm is not with the message: We don’t tailgate.
- The studio provided a review copy, which brings up my main qualm.
- My only real qualm is that BB, like every action film these days, uses the BLUR!
- "No," said Dawson, "or if I have, it is a mere momentary qualm which is gone before I can realise it."
- My only qualm is that you have a punctuation error in the first sentence – an error guaranteed to make an editor think twice about reading on.
- My only qualm is that Angel didn't use a celebrity participant like Ray Nagin, just in case some strange complication occurred with the trick.
- I really felt all the characters as they were so well drawn and my only qualm is the significance of the pious brother Henry and as he was of no significance.
- It has to be one of the most personable documentaries I have ever seen and my only qualm is that I wish that there were some way to find out how they have progressed since the surgery.
- I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house.
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