ill-founded

Modifies a noun

• claim: Tribunals will be able to strike out ill-founded claims which have no real chance of success.
• fear: For the Prime Minister to make speeches to this effect is to fatally undermine the criminal justice system and further fuel ill-founded public fears.
• attack: Another ill-founded attack on colleges and universities, I thought.
• view: A key target of this work will be employers - many hold stereotypical and ill-founded views of blind and partially sighted people.
• case: Manifestly ill-founded cases may be declared inadmissible by unanimous vote of a committee of three judges.

Modifying Another Word

• manifestly: In a two page ruling, the European court of human rights threw out her appeal as " manifestly ill-founded " .
• so: So the question he then had was: ' Why are we persecuting people around a doctrine that is so ill-founded?
• only: I believe you have accepted and are presented arguments which are not only ill-founded, they are embarassingly wrong.
• not: Director Dominic Champagne's claim that you could attend the show repeatedly and see new things each time is not ill-founded.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: The corollary is that where they do have adequate information they can be expected to accept the penalty if their judgements prove ill-founded.