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The word "unfounded" is correct and commonly used in written English
It means not based on fact or evidence, often used to describe a belief or claim that is untrue or unsupported. Example: The accusations against the company were unfounded and could not be proven with any evidence.
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Unfounded
adjective
Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.
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Lawrence's fear that the prostitutes would simply be moved on to another area proved unfounded.
"The merger is not only a cultural and strategic catastrophe, because it will mean the destruction of two prestigious bodies of sound, but in the long term it would seem that the economic arguments behind it are unfounded as over time it will not lead to any savings," said Dieter Schickling, a former head of music programming at SDR.
He said fears of a surge in benefit tourism after restrictions on the entry of Romanians and Bulgarians are lifted in January were unfounded.
Are the assumptions cheffy types proliferate about it being the route to superior taste also unfounded?
Gentiloni said reports that Italy had paid $12m €10mm) to free the women were "unfounded rumours" emanating from terrorist organisations which should not be given any credence.
When has the guardian's unfounded 'sexism' diatribes ever been about the 'boys?' Whether it's domestic violence articles that ignore the 40% male victims, studies on single parents that are based only on mothers or the complete absence of serious studies on, say, the much higher suicide rates among certain categories of men or the ordeal of single fathers in our incredibly biased court system".
I say to him, and to my other opponents who make those kinds of untrue and unfounded allegations, that there's a list of some 350 organisations.
The tax cut package is a variations of ideas already proposed by Ukip and the Liberal Democrats, but left Labour gasping at "the audacity of David Cameron offering himself as custodian of public finances, and the provider of such unfounded tax cuts".
A few degrees higher there are statements meant to be true when uttered but proven thereafter to be wholly unfounded: Nick Clegg's stance on raising tuition fees; David Cameron's "no ifs, no buts" pledge on cutting immigration.
The public naturally learned to be suspicious of rhetoric raising fears that appeared unreasonable and unfounded.
Harding said criticism of the BBC's newsrooms was "unfair and unfounded", including the "fabled leftwing bias" which he said he found "increasingly hard to take seriously in the light of the Conservative victory".
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