baselessly
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6.5
- adverb
- /ˈbeɪsləsli/
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sin fundamento
- Many people make claims baselessly, without any proof to support their statements.
- baselessly accuse
Examples
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Libel law exists so you can stop a particularly high-profile opponent (like, say, a major competitor) from baselessly running your name through the mud in public, and that's fine as far as it goes, but you're never going.
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If the residence time of a CO2 molecule is a century or more, as is baselessly claimed by the IPCC, CO2 would have a much greater effect than if the same molecule were re-absorbed within only ten years: click.
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Now I can hate all these people from up close... ...instead of baselessly judging them from this metal fart coffin.
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But when someone says something that is just baselessly, horrifyingly dangerous, that's a little bit different.
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In February 2004, he was again baselessly arrested in Bethlehem, then held in administrative detention for four months.
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By the way, it was gutsy of you to sneak that shot after McLaughlin had pronounced, baselessly, that all photos and video would be forbidden.
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Because if you're a big fan of an artist, at some level you imagine (baselessly) that you're a kindred spirit somehow with everyone else who is.
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Being detained, strip-searched, and handcuffed—completely baselessly—is bad.
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Chris Matthews laid into former GE CEO Jack Welch on Friday's "Hardball" for baselessly suggesting that the latest unemployment figures had been manipulated by the Obama campaign.
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People can speculate baselessly and endlessly about Obama's motivations or the lack of risk in publicly opposing the war in 2003, but what's indisputable is that he's not saddled with the impossible task of trying to explain such a vote away.
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Synonyms
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7.0
In a way that has no good reason
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8.2
Without a good reason or any right to do it
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8.4
In a wrong way because of a false belief that leads to wrong conclusions
In a way that has no good reason
In a way based on wrong reasons or false facts
In a weak and unimportant way that gives little real support
Antonyms
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Etymology
Baselessly comes from base meaning 'foundation', the same idea in basic, plus -less meaning 'without' and -ly which makes it an adverb. So to say something baselessly is to say it 'without a foundation' or 'without facts'.