Clarence Thomas

My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive.

American Judge

Friedrich Schleiermacher

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

German Theologian

Aldous Huxley

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

English Novelist

Rutger Bregman

News reports following a natural disaster are almost always dominated by stories of looting and violence, but in many cases such stories turn out to be unfounded speculations based on rumour.

Dutch Historian

Henry Knox

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

American Soldier

Steve Backshall

It's going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost all the fears we have about them are unfounded.

Lisa Cholodenko

The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded.

American Director

Rachel Cusk

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

Canadian Novelist

Claire Saffitz

Turkey burgers receive a fair amount of disparagement, and it's not unfounded.

American Editor

Michael Fish

English Celebrity

Use 'unfounded' to express strong disagreement or dismissal of an unsupported claim.

Emotional Weight

'Unfounded' suggests that there is a lack of evidence behind a statement or belief.

Speculation Rejection

Using 'unfounded' can be sensitive; it often denies claims that may affect reputations.

Sensitive Contexts

 I'm terrified of deep, dark, blue water. I don't know if anyone's ever had that same fear ever since they watched Jaws 1, 2, 3 and 4 like six times when I was a kid. But anything above here, if it's murky, I can already feel it right now. I swear there's something in there. Even if it's Lake Tahoe, it's fresh water, totally unfounded fear, ridiculous, but it's there.

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 Some even believed their acceptance had been an admissions error. While Clance knew these fears were unfounded, she could also remember feeling the exact same way in graduate school. She and her patients experienced something that goes by a number of names-- imposter phenomenon, imposter experience, and imposter syndrome.

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 and more than 1,000 people were dead. For all that the virus was rapidly contained, however, there was little that could be done about the alarming news reports carried by cable news channels and the Internet. As bloggers added to the hysteria by spreading unfounded conspiracy theories,

How pandemics spread

 that it was worth doing this as part of America's defense against terrorism. Surely that makes it a price worth paying. Well, when you look at the results of these programs in stopping terrorism, you will see that that's unfounded,

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 So vaccines shield the very young from infection. And if we want to talk, my friends, about what vaccines cause, because there's a lot of speculation, unfounded speculation on the internet, of what vaccines cause,

The new science of...

 And in districts around the country, big and small, who have made this change, they found that these fears are often unfounded and far outweighed by the tremendous benefits for student health and performance,

Why school should start...

 our fears of being subjugated by some unfeeling, artificial intelligence who is indifferent to our humanity. I believe that such fears are unfounded. Indeed, we stand at a remarkable time in human history,

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 trying precisely to defuse the unfounded accusations against baths and of course when you see that people are killing bats because of some scientists saying that bats gave us this

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 things like aliens built the pyramids or survivors from the lost continent of Atlantis invented hieroglyphic writing. Now, most of us know that claims like these are unfounded

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 "Sorry, my phone died." "It's nothing. I'm fine." "These allegations are completely unfounded."