Antonym: ill-founded. Similar words: well founded, ill-founded, well-rounded, founded, unfounded, confounded, dumbfounded, founder. Meaning: adj. based on sound reasoning or evidence.
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1. My suspicions proved to be well-founded.
2. He had to show that he had a well-founded fear of persecution on religious or political grounds to qualify as a refugee.
3. Their complaints are well-founded.
4. But, the Bremen scientists discovered, the fears were well-founded.
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5. I can't feel anything substantial in him, anything well-founded about him.
6. In fact, their campaign and the probably well-founded suspicion that the result had been rigged had the opposite effect.
7. Such an assertion presupposes a well-founded theory of performance, one which was able to assign periods of time to mental processes.
8. Some of the industry's optimism appears to be well-founded.
9. The plume has disrupted air travel in western Europe, The New York Times reports, because of (well-founded) fears that the silicates in the ash could turn into molten glass inside planes' jet engines.
10. Her fear is well-founded.
11. Fewer repressive autocracies have been able to produce well-founded economic growth for decades in a row, though there, too, there are success stories.
12. And the fears of these regimes are well-founded, because tyranny cannot survive forever in an atmosphere of truth.
13. He had felt certain that Sally's suspicion was well-founded; it had never occurred to him for an instant that there was a possibility of error.
14. We must respond to well-founded criticism with a willingness to change.
15. With great and well-founded expectations, we launched the Commission on Social Determinants of Health in Santiago, Chile[sentencedict.com], in March.
16. Evolution is a well-founded theory - among the most solid and important theories in all of science, and among scientists there simply is no controversy.
17. Policy-makers should be cognizant of the fact that well-founded policy initiatives will underwrite further growth in liquidity, discipline, diversity and sector sustainability.
18. If the American allegations of political links are well-founded, some Jamaican public figures may fear that Mr Coke's arrest would lead to the disclosure of embarrassing information.
19. What is now beyond dispute is that the impressionistic evidence is well-founded.
20. You're hot, tired, hungry very probably, and here I am, not answering any of your well-founded questions.
21. An obvious implication is that complaints do not always merit action, even when they are well-founded.
22. I was dealing with the definition of refugees under the 1951 convention, and concentrating on the well-founded fears of persecution.
23. This will score some political points, as many Americans have a deep (and often well-founded) distrust of health insurers.
24. It was not the foreigner who made the mistake, the newspaper reasoned, but the people who couldn't bear a little well-founded criticism.
25. The fear that the ability to monitor and select for desirable characteristics will lead to the subjugation of the undesirable—or the merely unfashionable—is well-founded.
26. At the same time, other evidence suggests that your worries are well-founded.
27. I believe that practically everybody has already made up their minds and at this point relatively few will respond to even the most articulate, soundest, and well-founded arguments.
28. In a statement released upon his arrival at the airport, Hu noted that China and Ukraine are good friends and partners whose people share well-founded friendship.
29. If your legal name was not on the Lin case petition, then refugee status could become more difficult to prove if you have any well-founded fear of political persecution by the KMT (and DPP proxies).
30. The research work supports further studies of the dynamic characteristics and control strategy of TCSC and its controller with a well-founded experimental platform.
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