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groundless

/ground-lis/US // ˈgraʊnd lɪs //UK // (ˈɡraʊndlɪs) //

无根据的,无根据,无依据的,无根的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without rational basis: groundless fears.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.without reason, justification

Examples

  • The Sheriff’s Office, in court filings, described the first two lawsuits as “frivolous, groundless and unreasonable” and said its deputies’ actions were “reasonable under the circumstances.”

  • One day after the sanctions announcement, Positive issued a statement denying “the groundless accusations” from the US.

  • Caputo made groundless accusations that government scientists are conducting “sedition” and warned of coming left-wing violence before taking leave from his position.

  • I can say all of this without hesitation because these concerns have been investigated and found to be groundless.

  • King: We must expunge from our society the myths and half-truths that engender such groundless fears as these.

  • “It is not a question of starting an investigation over a case that is groundless,” he said.

  • The supposedly groundless scoop about the missing hacker highlighted a week of PR problems for the Vatican bank.

  • At the most basic legal level, the charges of plagiarism are groundless.

  • He was beginning to hope that Romanoff had been playing a practical joke on him, and that all his fears were groundless.

  • Your anxiety lest any coldness should arise between Mr. E. and me will, I hope, prove groundless.

  • Ormsby attacked me hotly for trying to excite a groundless alarm, and I was recommended to hold my tongue and go to sleep.

  • But a still more satisfactory answer is, that the apprehension of danger is groundless, and therefore the whole argument fails.

  • For his assumption, groundless in every case, is false in a peculiar degree with respect to those sensible qualities.