qualm

Speech parts

1. qualm - Noun

2. qualm - Verb

Meaning

Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.

A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.

Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.

A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.

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Examples

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. Giacomo Casanova

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law. Desiderius Erasmus

The picture story fantasy cuts loose the hampering debris of art and artifice and touches the tender spots of universal human desires and aspirations. Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication to the innermost ears of the wishful self. William Moulton Marston

House Majority Leader Lee Qualm of Platte says they haven’t really talked about any, yet. Source: Internet

Another qualm surrounding deed restrictions has been raised by the public — which Gates plans to address. Source: Internet

In our brief interaction, our only qualm was that he briskly said the mocha could only be made with whole milk, and offered no explanation why. Source: Internet

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