I felt some misgiving about his ability to do the job.
They regarded the plan with misgiving.
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distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, dubiety, incertitude, misdoubt, mistrust, mistrustfulness, query, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty;
assurance, belief, certainty, certitude, confidence, conviction, sureness, surety, trust;
: a feeling of doubt about something : a feeling that something might not be right or might not work as planned
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