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qualms

/kwahm, kwawm/US // kwɑm, kwɔm //UK // (kwɑːm) //

质感,疑问,顾虑,资格

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
    • : a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving: a sudden qualm about the success of the venture.
    • : a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, especially of nausea.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounnagging doubt

Examples

  • Incidentally, Rousteing has no qualms with fast-fashion brands appropriating his designs either.

  • But there is something admirable about what it is doing, and about the fact that it has no qualms about it.

  • Qualms about violence versus sex aside, the book is a finely spun tale.

  • Our guide had no qualms about asking us to sleep closer, and, when we refused, he informed us he hated us.

  • Even those young evangelicals who still have qualms about gay marriage can find friends outside the wagon circling.

  • You may have similar qualms over rent and the rightness and wrongness of it.

  • Did Mr. Gryce suffer from any qualms of conscience at having elicited so much and imparted so little?

  • Commercial dealings took the most questionable forms: adulteration of products went on unchecked by any qualms of honesty.

  • Once or twice I felt qualms of pity for the old man, he was such an abject figure in the hands-of that terrible antagonist.

  • And, do you know, I don't think I have many qualms about this England of ours, however badly she behaves sometimes.