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qualm
A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
💬 Quotations
"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. […]"
A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
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.
To have a sickly feeling.