unwarrantedformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

True, real, false, and unreal
actual
actuality
actually
all that glitters is not goldidiom
alternate reality
false
false flag
falsely
fantastical
fever dream
non-realistic
not so muchidiom
nothing could be further from the truthidiom
nothing could have been further from my mind/thoughtsidiom
parallel universe
unreal
untrue
untruly
unverifiable
urban myth

unfounded | American Dictionary

unfounded
adjective
us/ʌnˈfɑʊn·dɪd/
(of a claim or piece of news) not based on fact; untrue:
unfounded rumors

Examples of unfounded

unfounded
The body and mind are never independent; subdivision is entirely arbitrary and unfounded.
Its assumptions are unfounded and in some cases clearly false.
So the innuendo - designed to attract the scorn of an academic community which was generally hostile to her - is again on this specific point unfounded.
In the end, the legal charges against the journalists were ruled unfounded by the courts.
The transference of disorder in society and disorder in language is linguistically unfounded.
This is not only an oversimplification, it is unfounded conjecture.
These new terms, though seemingly absurd, were not entirely unfounded.
Here, as in the case of sensationalist (and largely unfounded) newspaper reports, women and children take centre-stage.
Its corollary was that claims that were unable to meet these strict criteria of validity were discounted or disparaged as 'unfounded'.
We must study how expectations of gender are not just local, but play off of larger societal expectations and stereotypes, whether founded or unfounded.
Unfounded sets and well-founded semantics for general logic programs.
We dispute this and show in what follows that the arguments put forward by the proponents of the latter view are unfounded.
For the reasons outlined below, we believe that these concerns are unfounded.
This fear is unfounded, provided the therapist is adequately trained.
It turned out that such concerns were largely unfounded.
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