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Definition

feelings of uneasiness — especially about whether it is right to do something

More rarely feeling qualms can reference a sudden feeling of nervousness. Even more rarely (and historically), a qualm referenced a mild state of nausea.

She has no qualms about doing whatever it takes to win.

qualms = feelings of uneasiness

She took his phone and looked at his texts without a qualm.

qualm = feeling of uneasiness

(editor's note: Qualm is much more commonly used in the plural form, qualms.)

Despite qualms about discussing her friends, she agreed to cooperate with the investigation.

qualms = feeling unhelpful

They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

qualms = uneasy feelings

...you had absolutely no qualms about kneeing me in the groin, right?
Kiera Cass -- The Selection

qualms = uneasy feelings

I did likewise with no qualms.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

qualms = uneasy feelings

She had no qualms about telling a saleslady that a dress marked at twenty-five cents was worth only a dime, and she usually got it at that price.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

qualms = uneasy feelings

I had no qualms at all; in fact I could feel now the gathering, glowing sense of sureness in the face of it. I was ready for the war, now that I no longer had any hatred to contribute to it.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

qualms = uneasy feelings

Do you have any particular qualms about leaving Pencey?
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

qualms = uneasiness

I no longer had any qualms about that, although I couldn't help being glad that it would not be at Devon, at anywhere like Devon, that I would have that.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

qualms = uneasy feelings

Just remember," I warned her, "our pretty cloud cat would have no qualms about lunching on you."
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
Not because Annie might still be alive; he could roast her alive with no qualms at all.
Stephen King -- Misery
Mrs Brooks had strange qualms of misgiving.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

(editor's note: Qualm is much more commonly used in the plural form, qualms.)

Now, never you have qualms, old boy.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
I ask you to impose the extreme penalty of the law; and I ask it without a qualm.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger

(editor's note: Qualm is much more commonly used in the plural form, qualms.)

Annie was not without qualms about it and nor, she guessed, would Robert be.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
THE HOTEL THREE DOORS down has no such qualms, although I dislike this clerk almost as much as the other.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
Martin was glad that she did not add to his qualms by worrying.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
"No qualms of conscience?" he said.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

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