Usually means: Hesitations due to ethical concerns.
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  8. qualms: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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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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