as in doubt
an uneasy feeling about the rightness of what one is doing or going to do
she has no qualms about downloading pirated music files from the Internet
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Recent Examples of qualm
Many Republicans have now expressed their qualms about cutting the program too deeply amid significant backlash, and a key committee chairman said this week that one leading policy idea — per capita caps — is moving toward the back burner.
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Maya Goldman, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
While the logic of his qualm with Santos is sound, the emotion of it has a lot to do with something else.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 6 Mar. 2025
Boasting a creamy, almost serum-like texture, this offers a surprising medium coverage against dark spots, dark circles, and various other complexion qualms.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2025
While there are no significant qualms about sticking with the current combination, Brian Robinson Jr.’s production faded as the season progressed, and the final year of Austin Ekeler’s contract isn’t fully guaranteed.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
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Maya Goldman, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
While the logic of his qualm with Santos is sound, the emotion of it has a lot to do with something else.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 6 Mar. 2025
Boasting a creamy, almost serum-like texture, this offers a surprising medium coverage against dark spots, dark circles, and various other complexion qualms.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2025
While there are no significant qualms about sticking with the current combination, Brian Robinson Jr.’s production faded as the season progressed, and the final year of Austin Ekeler’s contract isn’t fully guaranteed.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for qualm
Noun
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On Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with the families of two girls who had died from measles in West Texas—and raised doubts about the safety of vaccines.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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Some of the Supreme Court’s conservatives have cast doubts about the precedent in recent years.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Provide 7 realistic objections or reasons for apathy that typical customers might have.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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There has never been an objection to describing this highly brutal, murderous conduct in words, nor did anyone object to this office when such crime scene images were recently shown on a Netflix documentary.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2025
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Cabrera previously detailed his regret and what spending time in prison did to change him to The Daily Mail.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Now, however, King is determined to put that regret in the past.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2025
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Notably, a factor behind the coup attempt was compunction about the granting of limited self-governance to Catalonia and the Basque country, which some members of the military feared was a prelude to the breakup of Spain.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Dec. 2023
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Neither do brave men or women stand by and see such things done without compunction of conscience, nor read of them without protest.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Qualm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/qualm. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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