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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
baseless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
baseless rumors
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Corrada could only have hurt himself by airing such baseless accusations.
▪ Invocations of popular support or consent may be baseless and even blatantly dishonest.
▪ Much of the presumption that surrounds Ratner's fall from grace is baseless.
▪ Not only mean; perhaps it was utterly baseless.
▪ Party chairman Chris Patten, who repeatedly urged caution, was not to know that Treasury forecasts of recovery were baseless.
▪ Soul Folks' nickname, Slow Folks, is not baseless.
▪ The charge was baseless and eventually dropped.
▪ We hoped that, in time, our fears would prove baseless.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baseless

Baseless \Base"less\, a. Without a base; having no foundation or support. ``The baseless fabric of this vision.''
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
baseless

c.1600, from base (n.) + -less. Related: Baselessly; baselessness.

Wiktionary
baseless

a. Of reasoning, that is based on something that is not true.

WordNet
baseless

adj. without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy" [syn: groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted]

Usage examples of "baseless".

May, 2002, giving the gist of the above and also commenting that it was all a result of baseless hysteria, and there had never been a shred of evidence that insulating buildings with asbestos was harmful to health.

At the time Jeffrey had been disturbingly mystified, since everyone, knew the suit had been baseless.

Each stone that goes towards the uprearing of this visible fane, each human soul that does its part in building the invisible temple of our national faith, is bearing witness to, and lending its support to, that which is either the truth of truths, or the baseless fabric of a dream.

In the presence of the defences of the Covenants as deeds, by these preachers, the baseless aspersions of novelists and theologues fade out into oblivion.

But, in the ecclesiastical doctrine of hell, prevalent in Christendom, we see the full equivalents of the baseless fancies and superstitions incorporated in these other doctrines.

The fact that most of the rumored discoveries of slugs were baseless made the rumors no less dangerous.

He the baseless feud shall heal That estrangeth wide apart Science from her sister Art.

The public itself, and not the newspapers, is the great factory of baseless rumors and untruths.

I hope to refer to this work hereafter, but just now I will only say that, after reading till one is tired the strange fancies of the squarers of the circle, the inventors of perpetual motion, and the rest of the moonstruck dreamers, most persons will confess to themselves that they have had notions as wild, conceptions as extravagant, theories as baseless, as the least rational of those which are here recorded.

But the irrelevant fact that Ellis talked to Bush quickly transmogrified into the baseless claim that Ellis had, in fact, given Bush proprietary VNS information.

The third is a mass of baseless theories, philosophical casuistry and feeble attempts to offer explanations of things that could not be explained.

Were it to be acknowledged as real, just about all of the EPA hysteria about cleanups could be forgotten, the scare-statistics being touted about Chernobyl would go away, and most of the worries concerning the nuclear industry would be seen as baseless.

And it crossed my mind, though I dismissed the idea as baseless, that I had not come to Mishnory to eat roast blackfish with the Commensals of my own free will.

But for all I know, they are being used for organ transplants- in other words, the baseless rumors that incited peasants to storm the orphanages during the Boxer Rebellion may in fact be literally true in your case.

Sometimes the haze plays fantastic tricks with it,--a cloud-cap hangs on Monte Solaro, or a mist obscures the base, and the massive summits of rock seem to float in the air, baseless fabrics of a vision that the rising wind will carry away perhaps.