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Public-health experts feared that those groundless claims would exacerbate mistrust among people who already doubted vaccines or serve as a gateway into vaccine skepticism among people who previously had no such concerns.

From Time

The anti-5G hysteria is a groundless conspiracy theory, but the pendants aren't just useless trinkets.

The Sheriff’s Office, in court filings, described the first two lawsuits as “frivolous, groundless and unreasonable” and said its deputies’ actions were “reasonable under the circumstances.”

One day after the sanctions announcement, Positive issued a statement denying “the groundless accusations” from the US.

Caputo made groundless accusations that government scientists are conducting “sedition” and warned of coming left-wing violence before taking leave from his position.

From Fortune

I can say all of this without hesitation because these concerns have been investigated and found to be groundless.

King: We must expunge from our society the myths and half-truths that engender such groundless fears as these.

“It is not a question of starting an investigation over a case that is groundless,” he said.

The supposedly groundless scoop about the missing hacker highlighted a week of PR problems for the Vatican bank.

At the most basic legal level, the charges of plagiarism are groundless.

He was beginning to hope that Romanoff had been playing a practical joke on him, and that all his fears were groundless.

Your anxiety lest any coldness should arise between Mr. E. and me will, I hope, prove groundless.

Ormsby attacked me hotly for trying to excite a groundless alarm, and I was recommended to hold my tongue and go to sleep.

But a still more satisfactory answer is, that the apprehension of danger is groundless, and therefore the whole argument fails.

For his assumption, groundless in every case, is false in a peculiar degree with respect to those sensible qualities.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to groundless, such as: baseless, false, flimsy, gratuitous, illogical, and illusory.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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