Sample Sentences for
qualms
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  • They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told.  (source)
    qualms = uneasy feelings
  • Kit shook off her qualms and set her own face towards home and another dull evening.  (source)
  • In addition to a fear of getting caught, Roy had serious qualms about trying anything illegal—  (source)
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  • ...you had absolutely no qualms about kneeing me in the groin, right?  (source)
    qualms = uneasy feelings
  • And Eve would, for Mavis, if not for herself, lie without a qualm if and when she was questioned.†  (source)
    editor's notes: Qualm is much more commonly used in the plural form, qualms.
  • I had no qualms about what I was about to do.  (source)
    qualms = uneasy feelings (about doing something that might be morally wrong)
  • HALE: Excellency, I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it.†  (source)
  • I did likewise with no qualms.  (source)
    qualms = uneasy feelings
  • Katherine Keeling; she's the headmistress at The Bishop Strachan School, and my only qualm with her is when she's pregnant.†  (source)
  • Lale would have no qualms about taking this man's life.  (source)
    qualms = uneasy feelings (about doing something that is wrong)
  • The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness: he shut his mouth tight and nodded.†  (source)
  • I understand your qualms, Lord Eddard, truly I do.  (source)
    qualms = feelings of uneasiness
  • I was surprised to witness how coolly the child gathered himself up, and went on with his intention; exchanging saddles and all, and then sitting down on a bundle of hay to overcome the qualm which the violent blow occasioned, before he entered the house.†  (source)
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