What is "qualms"

Usage examples of "qualms".

New York until the electrical and plumbing work was done, but her need to be out of the city, closer to Nicky and involved in the renovation on a daily basis overrode any qualms she had.

Chrysogonus knew his master would have no qualms about killing him if he erred.

I asked abruptly, not bothering to ask permission as I began to eat, trying to see if some food would settle the qualms gathering in my gut.

He stifled the qualms gnawing at his empty belly and squared his shoulders.

In the presence of the simple silvery ladies Dorothea and Virginia, she had qualms, as if she were breaking out in spots before them.

After all his villainies, which he perpetrates without any apparent qualms of conscience, it is incredible that he should honestly repent of his crimes.

Notwithstanding this apology, and the efforts he made in the sequel to entertain his friends with jollity and good-humour, his heart was so linked to the chain, that he could not detach himself from the thoughts of it, which invaded him at short intervals in such qualms as effectually spoiled his appetite, and hindered his digestion.

In spite of my qualms it was heartening to watch the trees coming into bud.

Deep inside, where dimness should have faded to blackness, a faint glow showed that Arranha had no qualms about using his magery here.

She, who had an opinion about everything which she usually had no qualms expressing, was now oddly at a loss for words.

The president of Sitex was a man she liked and trusted and whom she never had any qualms about.