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How to use misgiving in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Misgiving means doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread. Example: “Despite my misgivings, I decided to take a meeting with the Russian lawyer.”

Examples of misgiving by meaning

nounDoubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread.

  • In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
  • The rat must have been able to smell them on her fingers, and despite Zoe’s grave misgivings about the snack, which bore no relation to prawns or indeed cocktails, the rat didn’t seem to mind.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
  • Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 60

More sentences with misgiving

  • Despite my misgivings, I decided to take a meeting with the Russian lawyer.From the entry take
  • I had some misgivings about hiring someone so young, but it has worked out well.From the entry misgivings
  • But she had no misgivings about putting the story in print.2025 January 31, Elle Hunt, “‘Women’s rage is real. Mostly we turn it on ourselves’: Neko Case on songwriting, survival – and her mother’s…. From the entry oversharer
  • Its misgivings about immigration have smudged some of the liberal lustre it once had.2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany’s fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry luster
  • Whatever the misgivings might be, the future that these projects paint is bright.2023 August 9, Philip Haigh, “Get the product and price right to tempt back commuters”, in RAIL, number 989, page 54. From the entry sunlit uplands
  • I wanted to expound on my immediate sensory misgivings and mis-feelings!2010, George Lysloff, Poems, Visions, Reflections. From the entry misfeeling
  • I had immediate misgivings when Komang, Thomas, and I visited the balian that evening.2005, Makara Media, Bali Blues, page 147. From the entry balian
  • People also come in full of misgivings about "overwinding" their watches.1989 July 4, Jacquin Sanders, “What makes a watchmaker tick?”, in St. Petersburg Times. From the entry overwind
  • Such misgivings were expressed to anyone who would listen to the chunterings of an increasingly frail old lady.2013, Gaynor Gabriel, The Long Shadow, page 101. From the entry chuntering
  • Governor Nicoll viewed Marshall's Malayanization policy with strong misgivings.1973, Political Development in Singapore, 1945-1955, page 84. From the entry Malayanization
  • We hope that he is, and that our misgivings arise solely from the Minister's characteristically affronting approach to a railway matter.1961 May, “Editorial: Mr. M. presents Dr. B. - for a limited season only”, in Trains Illustrated, page 258. From the entry affronting
  • They could ill afford these misgivings.2022, Hisaya Amagishi, translated by Nikolas Stirling, Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools, volume 3, J-Novel Club…. From the entry bicorn
  • Americans might have taken some comfort from the fact that these critics also expressed similar misgivings about Rhodes Scholars coming from elsewhere.2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New…. From the entry good-for-nothing
  • Within all was dark; but she entered as freely and with as little misgiving or restraint as if it had been broad daylight.1911, Bram Stoker, “Exit Oolanga”, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC, page 170. From the entry broad daylight
  • All the doubts and misgivings of the past few hours fled and all that he knew was that Kate, his love and his life, was back with him.1989, Dawn Borrelli, Kate, page 101. From the entry murr

Meaning of misgiving

  1. noun Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread.

Full definition of misgiving

Questions about misgiving in a sentence

How do you use misgiving in a sentence?
Misgiving is used as a noun. For example: “Despite my misgivings, I decided to take a meeting with the Russian lawyer.”
What is a short sentence with misgiving?
“They could ill afford these misgivings.”
What does misgiving mean?
Misgiving means doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread.

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