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qualm

[kwahm, kwawm] / kwɑm, kwɔm /


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"The very nature of the alleged conspiracy does not state an antitrust claim, and the court therefore has no qualm dismissing with prejudice," she concluded.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

If the program’s resources are finite, though, you might well feel an ethical qualm about taking assistance that someone else needs more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

Seconds later, he wrote, the actors became the hospital, and “shortly afterward turn it, without a qualm, into a Buddhist funeral.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

The only qualm we have with the Charge 5 is the always-on display.

From The Verge ● Mar. 18, 2022

There was a sick qualm at the pit of Johnny’s stomach.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

"Xi has few qualms about removing people he promoted," Chong says.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

And unlike us mere mortals, they aren’t afflicted by pesky qualms about their reputation or career, or that queasy feeling in the gut produced by years of social conditioning against lying or ripping people off.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

Which is why Pedroza has no qualms about putting the game in Thomas’ hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

But “Disclosure Day” makes no qualms about its sanguinity.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

If he had had any qualms, he would never mention them.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes


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