as in unreasonable
having no basis in reason or fact
please stop making groundless accusations against innocent people fears of a strike proved groundless
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Recent Examples of groundless
The site has a history of promoting groundless conspiracy theories.
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Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
The rider who smashed his phone insisted in an interview with Chinese state media that the complaint lodged against him was groundless.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
Lively’s attorneys, Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, blasted the suit as legally groundless and an effort to silence her.
—Elizabeth Rosner, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
The bill was first introduced last year as Republicans focused on noncitizen voting
Ahead of the 2024 election, Trump and his allies repeated the groundless claim that Democrats planned to cheat by encouraging noncitizens to illegally vote.
—Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for groundless
Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025
The rider who smashed his phone insisted in an interview with Chinese state media that the complaint lodged against him was groundless.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
Lively’s attorneys, Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, blasted the suit as legally groundless and an effort to silence her.
—Elizabeth Rosner, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
The bill was first introduced last year as Republicans focused on noncitizen voting
Ahead of the 2024 election, Trump and his allies repeated the groundless claim that Democrats planned to cheat by encouraging noncitizens to illegally vote.
—Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for groundless
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The policy and specialist support environment is going to need to become more sophisticated, and more responsive to balancing needs and addressing conflict, unfairness and unreasonable requests / restrictions.—
Nancy Doyle,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina who studies organisms and ecosystems in radioactive regions, told the Times that the DOE's explanation that the wasps gathered legacy contamination for their homes is not unreasonable.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
4 Aug. 2025
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History shows that fears of large-scale job displacement from offshoring were unfounded.—
Anjana Susarla,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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The hype around the off-label use of the immunosuppressant rapamycin to prevent aging and increase longevity could be unfounded.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Groundless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groundless. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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