(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.
Unfounded
Definition:
(a.) Not founded; not built or established.
(a.) Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations.
Example Sentences:
(1) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
(2) • Feed-in tariffs (FITs) for small-scale renewables: Fears that existing FITs would be cut were unfounded.
(3) This policy, which prevents many travellers and overseas residents from benefitting from one of the most effective prophylactic treatments on the market today, thereby indirectly causing a number of pernicious cases of malaria, is based on the unfounded, unproved premise that wide use of this drug would foster the development of méfloquine-resistance or on side-effects, which are in fact rarely of any consequence and always curable.
(4) "I have been, and still am, pained by what I and my family are facing from fraudulent campaigns and unfounded allegations that seek to harm my reputation, my integrity and my military and political record."
(5) Others said: "There are police in x, don't come here" or "this and that street is blocked" or "let's meet tonight at x" Lawyers for the suspects said the accusations were unfounded.
(6) Unusual features included bizarre crying behaviour and unfounded allegations of sexual assault.
(7) One component of the current AIDS campaign in Vermont is an advertisement that addresses unfounded concern about casual transmission of AIDS.
(8) Online body language Initial fears that online therapy may simply not work very well proved unfounded, Larkin says.
(9) Local police would have to be required to cooperate, in what would be an unprecedented – and constitutionally unfounded – assertion of federal authority.
(10) The authors review the literature cited to support this hypothesis and demonstrate that its unqualified acceptance is unfounded.
(11) Even if that confidence is unfounded, you are better off saying everything is OK and then working behind the scenes to fix what is not OK.” But as Lewis points out, John Ramsay, formerly the SEC’s director of trading and markets who is now at IEX, has had no issue pointing out the cracks in the system.
(12) Such measures would be wrong and counterproductive, and would only help stoke unfounded fears in the population, that Germany can’t afford or manage these refugees, that they take money from us, steal our jobs and lower our wages,” Fratzscher said.
(13) "As the report itself shows, there are many unfounded rumours about links between particular substances and pregnancy outcomes.
(14) However, it could point to only one case in which a claim was determined to be unfounded and the person making it was deported.
(15) Senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said the CIA’s findings about the election were “unfounded” and undercut the peaceful transition of power.
(16) Draghi replies that yes, yields don't only reflect "unfounded fears".
(17) The foreign ministry spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham, also called it "unfounded and unacceptable", Fars said.
(18) Conservationists have criticised the inquiry into wind turbines, which they say is a front for anti-renewables politicians to air their unfounded concerns on the energy source.
(19) Arguably this scepticism over the ability of Osborne and Cameron to press ahead with a strong deficit reduction plan has proved unfounded since they have announced a programme far more ambitious than expected.
(20) Reports on interactions of nitrofurantoin with alcohol, antacids, and oral contraceptives are unfounded and anecdotal.