qualm
noun
an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction.
Example Sentences
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The man looked like a patchwork of qualmishness, tribulation, and unctuous piety, and his coat collar was badly frayed.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
Dr. Burdick became more interested, repeated the experiment with other provers, obtained almost uniform results, viz., a feeling varying from qualmishness to intense vomiting.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Disagreeable feeling in occiput, running down over the neck, followed by a slight qualmishness.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
In spite of a little feeling of qualmishness, which even his boasted disbelief in ghosts did not save him from, Mr. Henderson was about to spring upon the thing and solve the mystery.
From Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder by Roy Rockwood
No faint-heartedness or sentimental qualmishness marked any of his official acts.
From The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Joel Tyler Headley
