Sorry to say, that expectation was ill-founded.
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Ill-founded
Synonyms for "ill-founded" (16 found)
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ill-founded criticism
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He said, the part of the sentence which stated that the court “having heard the evidence, and maturely and seriously considered the whole, are of opinion that the charge is malicious and ill-founded: […]”
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Optimism rose to a third peak in 1846, when the eagerness of investors to take up shares in new companies precipitated a financial panic in which many ill-founded schemes perished.
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