Usually means: Unease about the correctness of something.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word qualm:

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  1. qualm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. qualm: Merriam-Webster
  3. qualm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. qualm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. qualm: Collins English Dictionary
  6. qualm: Vocabulary.com
  7. qualm: Wordnik
  8. qualm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. qualm: Wiktionary
  10. qualm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. qualm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. qualm: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Qualm, qualm: Dictionary.com
  14. qualm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. qualm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Qualm (album), Qualm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Qualm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. qualm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. qualm: Rhymezone
  20. qualm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. qualm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. qualm: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Qualm: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. qualm: FreeDictionary.org
  25. qualm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. qualm: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. qualm: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. qualm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Qualm: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Qualm: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. qualm: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Qualm: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (qualm)

noun:  A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
noun:  A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
noun:  (now chiefly in the negative) A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.
noun:  (archaic, UK, dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
noun:  (archaic, UK, dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
verb:  (intransitive) To have a sickly feeling.

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