MISGIVING in a Sentence

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

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 Meanings and Examples of MISGIVING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
misgiving
 n.  feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  "I should like to be," said I, glancing at the slate as he held it; with a misgiving that the writing was rather hilly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
2  With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realization of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
3  At first, a misgiving crossed me that Wemmick would be instantly dismissed from his employment; but it melted as I saw Mr. Jaggers relax into something like a smile, and Wemmick become bolder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LI
4  I was troubled with no misgiving that it was young in me to respond to her emotions.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
5  I have known him set out in the night, on a misgiving that the light might not be, by some accident, in the window of the old boat, and walk to Yarmouth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
6  I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  She began again to have some misgiving about her going away.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  The mental clearness and power he had found in this lonely girl had indeed filled his manner with misgiving even from the first few minutes of close quarters with her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
9  "No, sir," said Christian, drawing back, with a quick gaze of misgiving.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
10  When she had disappeared Charley, with misgiving in his eyes, slowly came from the stable door, and going to another point in the bank he looked over.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
11  Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
12  Legree, though he talked so stoutly to Cassy, still sallied forth from the house with a degree of misgiving which was not common with him.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  The sensation experienced by Franz was evidently not peculiar to himself; another, and wholly uninterested person, felt the same unaccountable awe and misgiving.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
14  Nevertheless the guest did at least execute such a convulsive shuffle that the material with which the cushions of the chair were covered came apart, and Manilov gazed at him with some misgiving.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
15  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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
Example Sentence:
1  I have no misgiving in recommending Ms Liu for the position you have in mind.
2  Despite her misgivings about leaving the baby, she decided to accompany her husband.
3  Opponents of nuclear energy have deep misgivings about its safety.
4  I felt I had to express my misgivings about her decision.