Definitions for qualm

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Spelling: [kwahm, kwawm]
IPA: /kwɑm, kwɔm/

Qualm is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in qualm (almqu).

Definitions for qualm

noun

  1. an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction:
  2. a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving:
  3. a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, especially of nausea.

Origin of qualm

First recorded in 1520-30; origin uncertain

Examples for qualm

But the deed was not yet done, and the qualm was kept under, and he slept.

Loewen proved to have one qualm that showed he was not a total monster.

I feel no qualm in saying that his exit was more hasty than his approach.

Yet I had no qualm of fear, no doubt, even, touching the issue.

Yet I admit to feeling a qualm when I hear this phrase, "moral defense."

Ma Tamby did not know what it is to have a qualm—which she could not have spelled if she had known.

He felt that he could kill Bruce Browning without a qualm of conscience.

He had put her aside without a qualm; and now he met her announcement with approval.

And the salve to the qualm was always the same remembrance that the deed had not been done yet.

Then I shall be able, without a qualm, to send Godfrey to the workhouse.

Word Value for qualm
Scrable

16

Words with friends

19

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