(a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remarks are the most direct official response on the issue, although the government has previously said that it "resolutely opposes" hacking and criticised "baseless" claims.
(2) Despite reasonable evidence suggesting the plot letter is a hoax , it has sparked debate in the city, with far right groups looking to capitalise while some prominent Muslims claim the allegations are baseless and rooted in Islamophobia.
(3) Today the Turkish government has levelled baseless and alarmingly false charges of ‘working on behalf of a terrorist organisation’ against three Vice News reporters, in an attempt to intimidate and censor their coverage,” Sutcliffe said.
(4) The SNP's assertion that we would be granted automatic entry has proven to be, like so many of their arguments, a baseless assertion."
(5) In a letter to staff and clients, he described the 13 criminal charges against him as "without exception, entirely baseless".
(6) It has a fixed rate on the pollution and no cap on carbon pollution.” Shorten denounced the Daily Telegraph’s story and said Australians were “sick and tired of baseless scare campaigns”.
(7) [The economist] Lord Stern has called it baseless economics and that's because here in the UK if we frack in the UK we don't actually use that gas or oil in the UK.
(8) Any person with the time to study the history of sexuality in traditional African cultures will discover that this claim is baseless.
(9) UN, human rights groups and refugee groups demand solutions following Nauru data leak – as it happened Read more Giles did not disavow the policy Labor resolved at the national conference but he said: “That material shows [the immigration minister] Peter Dutton’s claims that asylum seekers are safe are baseless.
(10) Hence, A and B appear to be Class II AP endonucleases which yield 3'-OH termini at nicks on the 5' side of baseless sugars.
(11) Nevertheless, social media is open to misinformation, baseless rumours, hate speech and conspiracy theories.
(12) But the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, dismissed the allegations as baseless and said Israel was attempting to sabotage Tehran's relations with Thailand.
(13) Goodison erupted in celebration, although you would be forgiven for thinking otherwise according to the Sky commentary and subsequent baseless accusations levelled at the club.
(14) Vikas Swarup, an Indian government spokesperson, said : “[The Ministry of External Affairs] called in [the] Saudi ambassador and conveyed the request of [the] police for cooperation of the embassy in the case of two Nepali citizens.” The Saudi Arabian embassy has issued a statement denying all the allegations, describing them as “completely baseless”, and has lodged an official complaint about the raid on the apartment which it says was a breach of diplomatic privilege.
(15) Puzder denied the abuse at the time and again later in a deposition for his divorce, calling his ex-wife’s allegations “baseless”.
(16) After the verdict, Ken Goss,a Crown Prosecution Service spokesman, said the defence was baseless.
(17) The Saudi Arabian embassy issued a statement describing the allegations as “completely baseless” said it had lodged an official complaint about the raid on the apartment, which it said was a breach of diplomatic privilege.
(18) Frequently there is still a subliminal suspicion of a compulsory segregation or segmentation of mentally diseased persons--a suspicion that is entirely baseless.
(19) The government will do its utmost to take action against baseless rumours," Abe said after the outcry over the edition, entitled The Truth of Fukushima, forced its publisher, Shogakukan, to suspend the series.
(20) Hague told MPs it was baseless to suggest that GCHQ deliberately sought to circumvent the law, including the need for ministerial warrants, by seeking information on British citizens from US intelligence agencies.
Gratuitous
Definition:
(a.) Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice.
(a.) Not called for by the circumstances; without reason, cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a gratuitous assumption.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that uric acid is the only effective physiological inducer, while its 2 and 8 thio-analogues serve as gratuitous inducers.
(2) It is proposed that the ability of P. putida to tolerate the unusually high degree of possible gratuitous induction observed for camphor catabolism may be related to the infrequent occurrence of bicyclic ring structures in nature.
(3) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
(4) Induction of ethanolamine ammonia-lyase formation in Escherichia coli required both the ethanolamine and vitamin B12, and was gratuitous during growth on glycerol.
(5) There was a sense of it being gratuitously anti-science from someone whose locus in the debate wasn't clear.
(6) First, galactose repression of beta-galactosidase synthesis was markedly enhanced in bacteria tested subsequent to gratuitous induction of the galactose-degrading enzymes with d-fucose.
(7) L-Malate was the only physiological inducer and bromosuccinate was a gratuitous inducer of dicarboxylic acid transport in a succinic dehydrogenase deficient mutant.
(8) Induction of penicillinase (beta-lactamase) in Bacillus licheniformis 749 by 2-(2'-carboxyphenyl)-benzoyl-6-aminopenicillanic acid (CBAP) was examined, since this compound was reported to be a gratuitous inducer of penicillinase in Staphylococcus aureus.
(9) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
(10) This budget isn't just going to be random pain, gratuitous pain, pain for the hell of it, sharp pain, stabbing pain ... it's pain – with a purpose.
(11) The authors predict a further rapid spreading of this infection in this risk group and postulated gratuitous providing of addicts with dispensable syringes and needles and condoms, and providing systematic intensive training of the personnel of dehabituation treatment institutions as well as extensive informational education of the addicts.
(12) Will the Australian government investigate whether it happened?” Abbott: “Well, we have very good relations with the Indonesian government and we’ve got very good cooperation with the Indonesian government when it comes to stopping people smuggling because, amongst other things, we haven’t offered the gratuitous insult to Indonesia that our predecessors did by, amongst other things, stopping the live cattle trade in panic at a television program.” Mitchell: “Prime Minister, will the Australian government investigate whether it happened?” Abbott: “Um, Neil, what we are doing is saving life at sea.
(13) Another person went to the gym at lunch time and couldn’t get out ... One member doesn’t have the right to revoke the pass of another member’s staff.” Chris Bryant, the former shadow leader of the House of Commons, said it was a terrible way to treat staff members, branding it petty and “vindictive, gratuitous nastiness”.
(14) In the absence of any known role for the products of the ilvGMEDA operon when repressing levels of branched-chain amino acids are present, there appears to be only a gratuitous role for the transcription at ilvEp.
(15) In half of the cases, combination of tissue signs of obstructive and calcificating pancreatitis were observed, so it is considered gratuitous to separate sharply the two forms of chronic pancreatitis.
(16) This compound also serves as gratuitous inducer of the catabolic acetylornithine aminotransferase.
(17) Their specific submission to Leveson lauded only "free speech that does no gratuitous harm".
(18) How can he live with himself after imposing such gratuitous pain upon the people of this nation?
(19) If you want to see how they turned out, pop over to Twitter where I am will posting gratuitous dough shots at @jnraeside .
(20) So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus."