unfounded
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| —adj | |
| 1. | (of ideas, allegations, etc) baseless; groundless |
| 2. | not yet founded or established |
| un'foundedly | |
| —adv | |
| un'foundedness | |
| —n | |
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Unfounded
is always a great word to know.
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Example sentences
At the time, the university decided that the allegation of ghostwriting was unfounded.
Yet the gloomiest predictions have so far proved unfounded.
Those criticisms have also been drowned out by the false and unfounded criticisms of the opponents.
However, preliminary data from the first year of fishing under the sector system show that these concerns were unfounded.
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