Recent Examples on the WebPompeo aired that misgiving about safety standards at Chinese labs while elaborating on President Trump’s frustration with the WHO. Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2020 Not without a touch of misgiving, Edward heeds the advice of Alice and ventures into the unlocked house.Washington Post, 6 June 2019 But White House officials expressed increasing misgiving about the scandals surrounding the former Oklahoma attorney general. Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 5 July 2018 An extraordinary painterly sensitivity expressed itself in the person of a young black male, the locus of terror and misgiving in a racist society. Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
Word History
First Known Use
circa 1535, in the meaning defined at transitive sense