(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.
Ungrounded
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The etching procedures produced well-defined etching patterns on both ground and unground enamel surfaces.
(2) Among the etching times used in this study, 90 seconds was an adequate time for etching on the unground primary enamel smooth surfaces polished with a brush cone.
(3) The effects of the nine etching procedures on ground and unground enamel surfaces were studied by scanning electron microscopy.
(4) An additional consideration is the hazard of shock and burns from contact with ungrounded large metal objects that are charged by RFR fields.
(5) Ten percent phosphoric acid in a polymer gel was also evaluated following a 20-second application to ground and unground primary enamel.
(6) The contract system of self-accounting relations between the establishments engaged in doctors' training has been introduced, which regulates a number of ungrounded claims for training and increases the responsibility of researchers concerned with training.
(7) Because all pacemaker units are not resistant to interference, no ungrounded electrical equipment and no equipment such as microwave diathermy, short wave diathermy, and electrical stimulators should be placed on, or near, a patient with a cardiac pacemaker.
(8) The amino acids composition of summary proteins in unground buckwheat of four common and promising varieties grown in the Ukraine was investigated by using ion-exchange chromatography with an automatic analyzor Hd-1200 E. Between individual varieties of buckweheat no essential differences in the amino acids content were in evidence.
(9) Morphological verification of growth of the tumor into other organs in 32.3% of patients who had been operated on merely points to the expediency of a combined operation excluding ungrounded refusal of treatment.
(10) Unground and polished enamel surfaces were etched with the respective etching solutions and the surfaces examined by scanning electron microscopy.
(11) The cooking of unground buckwheat originating from such cereals was attended by further losses of thiamine, within the range of 9.07 up to 14.15 per cent, depending upon the variety of the grain.
(12) Measurement of specific surface area for samples previously exposed to various relative humidities revealed no change with unground samples but a significant reduction with ground samples beyond about 20% relative humidity.
(13) Sorption isotherms, expressed as the amount sorbed per unit area of solid surface, were different for unground and ground samples.
(14) The poor outcomes were due to ungrounded increase of the indications for the performance of TBO.
(15) gamma-irradiation with doses of 0, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, and 2 MGy effected rumen dry matter losses of unground rice hulls from Hungary of 6.4, 14.5, 13.5, 21.3, 37.1, and 70.5%.
(16) Unground feedstuffs like cereals and roughage which are conspicuous by high proportions of finer particles and dust have to be estimated as risky environmental factors due to the accumulation of microorganisms (moulds, bacteria and lipopolysaccharides) and mites in the fines frequently.
(17) The increase in the rate of the enzymatic hydrolysis was not related to the specific surface area as shown by the fact that the micronized Form A, having a higher specific surface area value than ground Form A, showed the same Khydr as the unground Form A.
(18) Contrary to ungrounded fears that Siv applicants could be terrorists – one of the excuses Johnson cited as often delaying the process – the US would receive upstanding new residents.
(19) I was very … ungrounded," he says, laughing again.
(20) The loss of thiamine was highest in cooking unground buckwheat originating form raw grain, it being within the range of 16.35 up to 19.14 per cent, also depending on the variety of buckwheat.