as in doubts
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 qualms
Manager Stephen Vogt had no qualms about letting DeLauter face a lefty.
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Zack Meisel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Make no qualms about it—fragrance is booming, and has been for the past five years like never before.
—Kayla Greaves, Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
Towne had no qualms about comparing King Henry to Adolf Hitler, that murderous German fascist, driving force of the Jewish Holocaust.
—Marlene L. Daut
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
There are those that express qualms about handing over AGI to the UN.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Other Republicans declined to criticize the boat strike on Monday, with none expressing qualms about an operation whose legal rationale has drawn skepticism from experts.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
And despite Paris’ qualms with the film, Michael does otherwise have the backing of the Jackson estate.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Even the DeSantis administration might have some qualms about sanding off crosswalk markings within sight of the club where 49 people died in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Quite frankly, there are very few qualms with Rhino Market & Deli.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 Aug. 2025
Zack Meisel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Make no qualms about it—fragrance is booming, and has been for the past five years like never before.
—Kayla Greaves, Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
Towne had no qualms about comparing King Henry to Adolf Hitler, that murderous German fascist, driving force of the Jewish Holocaust.
—Marlene L. Daut
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
There are those that express qualms about handing over AGI to the UN.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Other Republicans declined to criticize the boat strike on Monday, with none expressing qualms about an operation whose legal rationale has drawn skepticism from experts.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
And despite Paris’ qualms with the film, Michael does otherwise have the backing of the Jackson estate.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Even the DeSantis administration might have some qualms about sanding off crosswalk markings within sight of the club where 49 people died in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Quite frankly, there are very few qualms with Rhino Market & Deli.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for qualms
Noun
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And while Waddle won’t be the one to admit to people’s doubts, his teammate Malilk Washington certainly can speak for him.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
4 Oct. 2025
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For investors, even opposition threats of repeal weaken confidence by raising doubts about long-term policy stability.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Reviewing pages have been thinned by the forces of history and technology; few Pynchon skeptics anymore bother to take the time to read the novels and register their objections.—
Book Marks
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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As the administration takes aim at vessels in the Caribbean, senators and lawmakers of both major political parties have raised stark objections.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Even some in the GOP had misgivings.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Yes, the point difference was largely due to special teams misgivings, but Canales’ situational choices led to some of those miscues.—
Mike Kaye
September 28,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The boundaries of the world are delineated neatly by your compunctions.—
Matthew Shen Goodman,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Incensed at being outsmarted, the CEO of Weyland-Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindive) allows one of her employees, a cyborg with very few scruples named Morrow (Babou Ceesay), to use any means necessary to reacquire the biological specimens.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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At this point in its history, the theory goes, the United States requires a willful and largely unaccountable power to impose changes that leaders with more delicate sensibilities and procedural scruples cannot ever accomplish.—
Russell Muirhead,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Qualms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/qualms. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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