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qualms

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  1. A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
  2. A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
  3. A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now often in negative constructions.)“This lawyer has no qualms about saving people who are on the wrong side of the law.”
  4. Mortality; plague; pestilence.

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