misgiving
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Despite their misgiving, both Lancaster and Wilson publicly urged their colleagues to ratify the tentative agreement, saying that rejecting it wouldn’t lead to better outcomes.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023
And it was my primary misgiving about the entire project, right?
From Salon • May 29, 2022
The man, identified as Juror 20, was seated on the jury despite one misgiving: He was supposed to get married on May 1 in Florida, when deliberations could still be taking place.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021
A helicopter pilot worries whether his chopper is up to the chore of rescuing downed pilots; "beneath the bravado, he had misgiving about the primitive machine he was tasked to fly."
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2015
With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realisation of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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