qualm

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

"There was never a quibble, never a qualm, there was never a moan", he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2022

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

In hindsight, Yeager said she had some initial qualms about the rental process, but the person with whom she was dealing reassured her at every point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Harry says being around other people making content helped him overcome his qualms about doing it himself.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Concern for the wages of low-income workers didn’t mean, however, that voters would forever set aside qualms about the rising cost of living.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Given the existential threat posed by a German bomb, few harbored any qualms about the Allies using theirs first.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik