ill-founded
ill-founded
Definition
ill·-founded (-fo̵un′did)
adjective
not supported by facts or sound reasons
ill-founded
Usage Examples
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.
Browse dictionary entries near ill-founded
- ill-favored
- ill-fated
- ill fame
- ill-equipped
- ill-disposed
- ill-defined
- ill-considered
- ill-conceived
- ill-bred
- ill-boding
- ill-gotten
- ill humor
- ill-humored
- ill-looking
- ill-mannered
- ill nature
- ill-natured
- ill-omened
- ill-prepared
- ill-proportioned
