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    groundless


    1. So far there had been no real fear of encountering a hostile alien power out among the stars, but that confidence was groundless, based on the presumption that any civilization capable of space flight would broadcast signals that human science could detect


    2. This notion, however, seems to be altogether groundless


    3. In their present state of improvement, those prohibitions, perhaps, without cramping their industry, or restraining it from any employment to which it would have gone of its own accord, are only impertinent badges of slavery imposed upon them, without any sufficient reason, by the groundless jealousy of the merchants and manufacturers of the mother country


    4. To a sovereign, on the contrary, who feels himself supported, not only by the natural aristocracy of the country, but by a well regulated standing army, the rudest, the most groundless, and the most licentious remonstrances, can give little disturbance


    5. On November 21, a radio station gave a groundless report that Mrs


    6. By artlessly suggesting his hosts" anxieties were groundless, Jon had granted them absolution


    7. The interpretation of dreams is largely a superstitious and groundless system of ignorant and fantastic speculation


    8. Just remember that all your fears are groundless


    9. “His words, surely are not groundless?”


    10. “The ad hoc reasons of opinions are the groundless meanings for ethics

    11. “You believe in the sound of facts; I hear only a groundless sentiment that so wishes it were other, and so loves that it is not, that you endlessly split yourself in two over, and over, 617


    12. As it turned out, their fears regarding the press, proved to be groundless for the most part


    13. With a little common sense and reference to the rules mentioned in the Noble Qur’an, any Muslim – however slight his religious education – would find an account of such miracles groundless


    14. But the real cause of all these states that seem groundless is that the UU-VVU–copies of “a deceased personality” have the Experience of higher-quality creative realizations in their Configuration


    15. Being under the “dopamine attack”, the man becomes truly convinced that this sudden excited state inside him is caused by the presence of this particular woman (which is not completely groundless!), at which point he starts to make active attempts to become acquainted with her


    16. destroyed shows how utterly groundless their belief in Hell is


    17. SHOWS HOW UTTERLY GROUNDLESS THEIR BELIEF IN HELL IS


    18. The fact that believers in Hell can prove their Hell only by using symbolic passages, metaphors, and parables; and must use these to set aside plain passages that says the wages of sin is death, the lost die, perish, are destroyed shows how utterly groundless their belief in Hell is


    19. “All the apparent difficulty of interpretation grows out of the groundless assumption…that man ceases to be at death as a tree, a plant, a bird, a fish, or beast ceases to be


    20. IT IS AN ABSURDITY to define eternal life as a “place or a state” and deny its obviously true meaning, eternal existence Life must have a place and condition in the next world, as it does here, but to say such is the meaning of the phrase is utterly groundless

    21. ) down to the Captivity, will find the conviction deepening upon him that of all groundless delusions of modern times one of the most groundless is that these 'old fathers looked only for temporal promises


    22. She had hardly changed at all: his fears had been groundless


    23. He saw the uncertainty in the mare’s ears and lifted the whip, but at the same time felt that his fears were groundless; the mare knew what was wanted


    24. At that moment, when the revelation of everything was hanging over him, there was nothing he expected so much as that she would answer mockingly as before that his suspicions were absurd and utterly groundless


    25. On getting Sviazhsky’s letter with the invitation for shooting, Levin had immediately thought of this; but in spite of it he had made up his mind that Sviazhsky’s having such views for him was simply his own groundless supposition, and so he would go, all the same


    26. It was with a heavy heart that Frodo saw Aragorn and Legolas climb the steep bank and vanish into the mists; but his fears proved groundless


    27. The first of these reasons was an exaggerated and eventually groundless fear; the other two were typical of temporary influences


    28. My fears, however, were groundless, for he held up his two hands imploringly, and made his petition in a moving manner


    29. He behaved very well in the regiment but was not liked; Rostov especially detested him and was unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man


    30. Balashev began to feel uncomfortable: as envoy he feared to demean his dignity and felt the necessity of replying; but, as a man, he shrank before the transport of groundless wrath that had evidently seized Napoleon

    31. He refused almost gruffly and was attempting to calm her by saying that all her fears were groundless, that the accident she feared would prove a farce


    32. What had she done? Because she had been afraid she might succumb to the pleas of this giant, she had burned her bridges behind her—in her groundless apprehension that she might make a terrible mistake, she had made a worse one


    33. But my astonishment was groundless


    34. He saw the uncertainty in the mare's ears and lifted the whip, but at the same time felt that his fears were groundless; the mare knew what was wanted


    35. On getting Sviazhsky's letter with the invitation for shooting, Levin had immediately thought of this; but in spite of it he had made up his mind that Sviazhsky's having such views for him was simply his own groundless supposition, and so he would go, all the same


    36. But all their apprehensions turned out to be groundless: it was just the young ladies who did come


    37. In the fifth figure, when my partner had to leave me for the other side and I, counting the beats, was getting ready to dance my solo, she pursed her lips gravely and looked in another direction; but her fears for me were groundless


    38. His aunt, Mary Ivanovna, was afraid Dmitri would form an intimacy with Katusha; but her fears were groundless, for Nekhludoff, himself hardly conscious of it, loved Katusha, loved her as the pure love, and therein lay his safety—his and hers


    39. "An entirely groundless appeal


    40. But why, then, has this wonderful thing happened, that clever men preached with the greatest assurance and the crowd accepted with veneration, only groundless and meaningless doctrines? The reason is only that these doctrines justified men in their bad mode of living

    41. It is said that by reason one cannot apprehend the truth, because reason is liable to error: there is another way, unmistakable and almost mechanical,—one must study facts on the ground of science; that is, on two groundless suppositions, Positivism and Evolution, which are offered as the most undoubted truths


    42. Balashëv began to feel uncomfortable: as envoy he feared to demean his dignity and felt the necessity of replying; but, as a man, he shrank before the transport of groundless wrath that had evidently seized Napoleon


    43. You, peaceful inhabitants of Moscow, artisans and workmen whom misfortune has driven from the city, and you scattered tillers of the soil, still kept out in the fields by groundless fear, listen! Tranquillity is returning to this capital and order is being restored in it


    44. I will now show you how fallacious his reasoning and groundless his pretensions are


    45. Another opinion, equally groundless, prevails to a considerable extent; and that is, that these prairies have all been heretofore cultivated by the aborigines, and that the grass having overspread these plains, prevented the growth of trees on them


    46. But if the rate of expense in the estimate of my colleague were deduced from the rate of English expense during war, these objections must be altogether groundless


    47. It is assailed from the masked batteries of friendship to peace and commerce on the one side, and by the groundless imputation of opposite propensities on the other


    48. Not without anxiety did I see him brought within the fascination of the "Holiness Band" and the "Salvation Army," and my fears were not groundless, as some minor symptoms in his spiritual life clearly disclosed


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    Synonyms for "groundless"

    baseless groundless idle unfounded unwarranted wild heedless reckless unjustifiable wanton inconsiderate wilful unruly

    "groundless" definitions

    without a basis in reason or fact