Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: misgiving
IPA transcription: [mɪsɡ'ɪvɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: scruple, qualm, misgiving
    Meaning: uneasiness about the fitness of an action
  • Synonyms: apprehension, misgiving
    Meaning: painful expectation
Usage examples
  • Draw back in distrust and misgiving
  • Scraps didn't understand this, but she had an uneasy misgiving that she had a cotton back herself.
  • Her friends knew that her retirement on this occasion was timed to finish on the morning of her reception and had not the least misgiving that her doors would still be closed.
  • Just as the resurrection of Jesus could be accepted without misgiving by the non-scientific early Christians, to whom miracles appeared among the most frequent occurrences of life, so could the ascension.
  • The attorneys whom he had employed in London received his instructions with surprise and evident misgiving; however, they could only obey, and mutter something of their sorrow that such heavy costs should only fall upon their own employer,--especially as nothing was wanting but perseverance to throw them on the opposite party.