(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.
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.