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All misgiven synonyms

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verb misgiven

  • question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
  • distrust — to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
  • suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
  • impugn — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
  • vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
  • demur — If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
  • challenge — A challenge is something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination.
  • mistrust — lack of trust or confidence; distrust.
  • discredit — to injure the credit or reputation of; defame: an effort to discredit honest politicians.
  • disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
  • insinuate — to suggest or hint slyly: He insinuated that they were lying.
  • waver — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
  • imagine — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
  • query — a question; an inquiry.
  • fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
  • dispute — to engage in argument or debate.
  • fluctuate — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
  • scruple — a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
  • surmise — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
  • misgive — (of one's mind, heart, etc.) to give doubt or apprehension to.
  • shilly-shally — to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
  • misdoubt — doubt or suspicion.
  • call in question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • smell a rat — any of several long-tailed rodents of the family Muridae, of the genus Rattus and related genera, distinguished from the mouse by being larger.
  • question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
  • wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
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