UNFOUNDED in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of UNFOUNDED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unfounded
 a.  not built or established; not based on fact or sound evidence; groundless
Classic Sentence:
1  The gloom of her first anticipations was proved to have been unfounded.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  They judged it best that Lady Bertram should not be harassed by alarms which, it was to be hoped, would prove unfounded; but there was no reason why Fanny should not know the truth.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  She had soon the mortification of seeing Mr Elliot withdraw, and no one of proper condition has since presented himself to raise even the unfounded hopes which sunk with him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  So I reasoned with myself in the morning, and I tell you the direction of my suspicions, however much the result may have shown that they were unfounded.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
5  The charge was not wholly unfounded.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
7  Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.
2  There are still some unfounded fears floating around out there about cancer being contagious.
3  Whether the concerns are unfounded is another issue but the feeling is certainly out there.