(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.
Unrealistic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of its demands are wildly unrealistic, such as the reintroduction of direct rule and the suspension of devolution.
(2) However, this volume of blood is an unrealistic amount to take from the frequently febrile pediatric patient.
(3) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
(4) Or is this new low just as unrealistic as the original high?
(5) The simplest models make a variety of unrealistic assumptions and an outline is presented of how the assumptions of fingerprint band population frequency equality and mutation rate constancy can be relaxed to produce a more realistic and powerful model.
(6) Labour said it would not respond to the threat posed by Ukip by supporting unrealistic targets for net migration or proposing radical changes to the free movement of workers which would probably be rejected by the rest of the EU.
(7) Tony Pulis hopes his only transfer business before the close of play at 11pm on Monday is incoming rather than outgoing at West Bromwich Albion but the manager has warned against unrealistic expectations if Saido Berahino remains after the striker marked his return with two goals.
(8) Furthermore, a careful selection of the facts to be documented must be established, because a "complete clinical documentation" is unrealistic.
(9) It’s not complicated and it’s not an unrealistic wish list.
(10) Unfortunately most of these neural nets are unrealistic in important respects.
(11) But he concluded: "You've been evasive, repetitive and unrealistic."
(12) It is a totally unrealistic, pessimistic vision about what this country can achieve."
(13) Our main finding is that most addicts have a strong interest in training and employment services, but their expectations about the impact of such services is often unrealistic.
(14) But the scale needed, the expense and the potential unintended consequences are so great that it is widely considered unrealistic.
(15) Because this is often unrealistic, the only other way to keep these patients free of disease is by total dental extraction.
(16) This implies also the tendency that the average food intake estimated through FFQs can yield unrealistically high values for items consumed frequently.
(17) Unrealistic aim The executive does not dispute that the magazine division holds appeal for mass-market publishers such as IPC, Bauer and National Magazines, however, all of which could save significant sums through back office synergies.
(18) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, demanded a European monitoring mission in Ukraine, but conceded it would be “quite unrealistic” for the Russians to allow such a mission into Crimea .
(19) Urinary incontinence is a common occurrence in long term care and, given the client population, continence is often an unrealistic expectation.
(20) The latter calculation was lower than the ESD in three of the five instances examined, which seems unrealistic.