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plural qualms
A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. quotations examples
“Do you have any particular qualms about leaving Pencey?”“Oh, I have a few qualms, all right. Sure . . but not too many. Not yet, anyway. […] ”
1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, page 19
Opponents of those privatization plans hoped to use Mr. Armstrong's qualms as ammunition to block the White House initiatives, and they asked for more public statements.
2012 August 25, Andy Pasztor, “Armstrong, First Man on Moon, Dies”, in Wall Street Journal, retrieved 2012-08-26
Questions of bad taste have hung around Dear Evan Hansen since it debuted on Broadway in 2016, though such qualms were mostly drowned out by praise for Platt’s visceral live performance and the catchy Broadway-by-way-of-Christian-rock tunes from wunderkind songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (who are also responsible for the toe-tapping numbers from The Greatest Showman).
2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club
A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. examples
(now chiefly in the negative) A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. examples
(archaic, UK dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
(archaic, UK dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
third-person singular simple present qualms, present participle qualming, simple past and past participle qualmed
(intransitive) To have a sickly feeling. examples