(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.
Groundless
Definition:
(a.) Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion.
Example Sentences:
(1) China's foreign ministry has dismissed speculation that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden might have spied for Beijing as "completely groundless".
(2) At psychiatric consultation it became apparent that each man had a mental disorder, one symptom of which was an excessive and groundless concern that he suffered from AIDS.
(3) However, his claim about the absence of the effect of stabilization of Z-DNA at low salt proves to be groundless, and the criticism of our earlier approach seems to be irrelevant.
(4) Serial interviews with 39 patients undergoing radical radiotherapy to the oral cavity revealed that misunderstandings and groundless fears about this form of treatment were widespread.
(5) The patients' reports about their experience of anxiety show that concrete and groundless anxiety are felt as equally unpleasant.
(6) In an interview last week with the Jerusalem Post, the Israeli prime minister rejected accusations of interference in the election, saying they were "completely groundless".
(7) "In particular, do not destroy the goodwill and anticipation the public has for the new office holders after the 18th party congress by limiting and persecuting an ordinary citizen's normal freedom of speech in such a groundless fashion."
(8) KCNA quoted the foreign ministry as saying: “As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident.
(9) As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.
(10) The report made wild guesses, and was groundless and with ulterior motives,” the spokesperson said, adding that China’s stance was “clear”.
(11) Chen said the authorities' threat of prosecution against his wife was groundless and the harassment was part of continued efforts by local authorities to punish Chen Guangcheng for his continued activism overseas by targeting his relatives.
(12) The French finance minister Pierre Moscovici called the report an "absurd and groundless" exercise in "French bashing" while prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault accused the Economist of sensationalism.
(13) This fight may have sharpened the opposition, but it expanded the range of support for transgender equality.” 'Bathroom predator' spin on Houston equal rights bill puts Texans in hot seat Read more The pro-Hero campaign relied on logic and reasonableness, which as a strategy turned out to be no match for a stark yet spurious slogan from opponents: “No men in women’s bathrooms.” This line, peddled endlessly and rooted in groundless suspicion of transgender people, sought to scare voters into believing that because of the reference to gender identity, a broad civil rights bill was in essence a license for sexual predators to attack women in bathrooms.
(14) The author states that the insurers' fears are groundless but suggests that psychiatrists research the utilization and costs of their treatments in insurance plans collaboratively with the actuaries who determine policy and premiums.
(15) To enhance the effectiveness of the immunoprophylaxis of measles and its influence on the epidemic process, a number of problems must be solved with the aim to improve the quality of the vaccine, especially its thermal stability, to establish the possibility of shifting the beginning of immunization from 15-17 months to 12 months of age, to increase the coverage of children with immunization against measles by decreasing the number of groundless exemptions from immunization and by immunizing children in risk groups according to individual schedules and dosage, to carry out selectively the booster immunization of persons who have lost their postvaccinal immunity, as revealed by laboratory test, or in whom such loss may be supposed, to introduce the objective method (indirect hemagglutination test) for controlling the state of immunity among different groups of the population into laboratory practice at sanitary and epidemiological stations.
(16) There is no harm in exploring the truth about racism when all moral, scientific, social, historical and genetic evidence demonstrates it to be groundless and ridiculous.
(17) Protecting humans from the real hazards and allaying groundless fears requires a self-consistent body of scientific data concerning effects of the fields, levels of exposures which cause those effects, and which effects are deleterious (or beneficial or neutral).
(18) "It is regrettable that the Venezuelan government has again decided to expel US diplomatic officials based on groundless allegations, which require reciprocal action.
(19) The state KCNA news agency added that claims North Korea had conducted the attack on Sony in revenge for the controversial comedy The Interview , a multimillion-dollar comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen that depicts the assassination of Kim Jong-un, were “groundless slander”.
(20) A thorough and well-organized medical chart can prevent malpractice from occurring, discourages the filing of groundless lawsuits, and is a useful tool in defending a physician in a medical malpractice action.