well-founded
having a foundation in fact; based on good reasons, information, etc.: well-founded suspicions.
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How to use well-founded in a sentence
Kim now knows the “well-founded fear” that asylum seekers must prove they have to be accepted by a host country.
The allusion to Prime Suspect, a massive hit on both sides of the Atlantic, is well founded.
The Haunting New Serial-Killer Thriller Heading to Netflix | Jace Lacob | May 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut it's worth asking: are those fears in any way well-founded?
Doctors are human beings like anybody else, they have opinions, and not always well-founded ones.
“The idea that you can sleep your way to the top is not well founded,” says Shen.
The purchasers found that this claim was not well founded, and sought to recover their money.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThe story of the intended mutiny was well founded, and was only one phase of the general feeling of unrest throughout Alabama.
The Supplies for the Confederate Army | Caleb HuseDeath took place often in ten or twelve, and generally in eighteen or twenty hours after the appearance of well-founded symptoms.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanThe story is said to be well founded: be this as it may, our ladies seemed to have received it as gospel.
She replied, that they were very well founded, and added a reason for it which seemed to me very satisfactory.
British Dictionary definitions for well-founded
having good grounds: well-founded rumours
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