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    misgiving


    1. I started to put the car in park and hesitated with a twinge of misgiving


    2. I was already not in the mood to take another misgiving


    3. While Moore simply looked at him with some misgiving, it was as if Johnson’s words had sent a jolt into Petraeus, who pointed an angry finger at his action agent


    4. Angie eyed Edson with misgiving, not sure how to take that


    5. Even though Dean knew that Erik was right, he still felt a bit of misgiving then


    6. Something that Raymond had said then struck her and she looked at him with some misgiving


    7. Ingrid then looked at Hien in her arms, who had listened to that with some misgiving


    8. With legs heavy with misgiving, he set off after him


    9. Not a cloud, not a misgiving has dimmed my worship


    10. I think the elder one had a slight misgiving at the last, and seemed to remember what was due to the Lord Mayor, when she found herself going to bed in a strange house belonging to somebody of whom she knew nothing; for she remarked a little doubtfully, and with rather a defensive eye fixed on me, that the war had broken down many barriers, and that people did things now that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing five years ago

    11. Morrison's and her own conscience's accusations, her soul much beaten and bent by winds of misgiving but still on its feet, still defiant, still sheltering itself when it could behind plain common sense which whispered at intervals that all that had happened was only bad luck


    12. I must say that it was with a great deal of misgiving that I saw Clare enter Margot's


    13. misgiving, thus the “beating of the breasts”, attendant with


    14. Please take note of a conscientious warning about the gravity of the misgiving there is on the part


    15. My only misgiving is the trouble I shall cause you because it shall not be easy for you either


    16. feel one misgiving that he was bringing such discord to


    17. gressive formation of sociotype yet in childhood without any misgiving


    18. In the outermost room were half a dozen exceptional people who had had, for a few years, some vague misgiving in them that things in general were going rather wrong


    19. Lorry received these confidences, and as he watched the face of his friend now sixty-two years of age, a misgiving arose within him that such dread experiences would revive the old danger


    20. God guide thee, Sancho, and govern thee in thy government, and deliver me from the misgiving I have that thou wilt turn the whole island upside down, a thing I might easily prevent by explaining to the duke what thou art and telling him that all that fat little person of thine is nothing else but a sack full of proverbs and sauciness

    21. There was something so hard and certain in his mother, as if she never had a misgiving in her life


    22. Then suddenly he relaxed, full of wonder and misgiving


    23. " The sensation experienced by Franz was evidently not peculiar to himself; another, and wholly uninterested person, felt the same unaccountable awe and misgiving


    24. "I tell you what, Sir Franz," cried Albert, "you deserve to be called out for such a misgiving and incredulous glance as that you were pleased to bestow on me just now


    25. At first, a misgiving crossed me that Wemmick would be instantly dismissed from his employment; but it melted as I saw Mr


    26. "The time has not gone by, Herbert, has it? What night is to-night? How long have I been here?" For, I had a strange and strong misgiving that I had been lying there a long time—a day and a night,—two days and nights,—more


    27. She followed not all, a part of the whole, gave attention with interest comprehended with surprise, with care repeated, with greater difficulty remembered, forgot with ease, with misgiving reremembered, rerepeated with


    28. ” He rarely challenged her, but now he expressed a misgiving


    29. I was about to ring his bell, when some misgiving came into my mind, and, crossing to a neighbouring shop, I asked the man behind the counter if he could tell me anything of Mr


    30. My mother never knew if her father had some misgiving or if he simply needed her at home to care for her mother

    31. However, as the moment for the girl's setting out drew nigh, when the first excitement of the dressing had passed off, a slight misgiving found place in Joan Durbeyfield's mind


    32. Her seeming indecision was, in fact, more than indecision: it was misgiving


    33. Almost before her misgiving at the news could find time to shape itself she took, under her companion's direction, two of the most beautiful of the Hamburghs in her arms, and followed the maid-servant, who had likewise taken two, to the adjacent mansion, which, though ornate and imposing, showed traces everywhere on this side that some occupant of its chambers could bend to the love of dumb creatures—feathers floating within view of the front, and hen-coops standing on the grass


    34. However, it soon grew clear that the hour of emancipation for that little prisoner of the flesh was to arrive earlier than her worst misgiving had conjectured


    35. Her misgiving was such that at dusk, when the milking was over, she walked in the garden alone, to continue her regrets that she had disclosed to him her discovery of his considerateness


    36. Mrs Brooks had strange qualms of misgiving


    37. However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so much as the shadow of a misgiving


    38. As I was leaving the Irishman's roof after the rain, bending my steps again to the pond, my haste to catch pickerel, wading in retired meadows, in sloughs and bog-holes, in forlorn and savage places, appeared for an instant trivial to me who had been sent to school and college; but as I ran down the hill toward the reddening west, with the rainbow over my shoulder, and some faint tinkling sounds borne to my ear through the cleansed air, from I know not what quarter, my Good Genius seemed to say—Go fish and hunt far and wide day by day—farther and wider—and rest thee by many brooks and hearth-sides without misgiving


    39. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving


    40. Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving

    41. Had I been ever so little more experienced, I should have had a misgiving that the least doubt in such cases must be taken as a bad sign


    42. I should certainly have run after her, but I was restrained by one thought, and that was not a thought but a vague misgiving : I had an inkling that of all her vituperation, " imitation lover " was the most significant phrase


    43. I had a painful misgiving at heart! I felt that calumny might come of it later (and it did, in fact, it did)


    44. Chilkin had, in fact, expressed no more than a vague misgiving that all was not as it should be


    45. To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving


    46. As I had a misgiving of something very unpleasant, I wanted to take him round the square straight to the entrance to the governor's, but my own curiosity was roused, and I stopped only for one minute to question the first person I came across, and suddenly I looked round and found Stepan Trofimovitch no longer at my side


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    Synonyms for "misgiving"

    distrust misgiving mistrust suspicion apprehension qualm scruple scepticism cynicism

    "misgiving" definitions

    uneasiness about the fitness of an action


    painful expectation


    doubt about someone's honesty