(1) Accusations of having received US funding were groundless , the movement's leaders have repeatedly said.

(2) This may be a groundless , purely ÔÇÿfeltÔÇÖ fear, like the dread of letting oneself fall back into someone's arms.

(3) They have realized that their pain and suffering are groundless and empty in nature.

(4) The substance of his claims for protection for actors and cheap drugs was either groundless or questionable.

(5) Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, sticking to duty or insisting on our rights, we can be confused or paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless .

(6) But he harbours an irrational and groundless suspicion that his newly-wed wife will have an affair.

(7) They see the book as ÔÇÿunderpinned by groundless fears and moral panicÔÇÖ.

(8) The final, however, was worthy of the occasion and the fears that Germany would reduce the game to a mindless bore proved groundless .

(9) Indeed the fact that such apparently groundless claims are being banded around suggests that, for some at least, the term has already taken on a new meaning.

(10) My assertion is by no means groundless if we take into account our 1.3 billion population and per capita arable land.

(11) In both cases, the fear was neither groundless nor unreasonable.

(12) And he said he would not be discouraged by such groundless slander and unreasonable allegations and would ignore them.

(13) Fears that a new case had been found in Horton-in-Ribblesdale proved groundless earlier this week when posthumous tests proved negative.

(14) Fear of death seems to me to be a phobia, i.e. an unreasonable, groundless fear.

(15) It's groundless , it's baseless, it's something which we don't do and will never do.

(16) ÔÇÿNothing sticks so fast in the mind as a groundless sense of guilt,ÔÇÖ Kafka added.

(17) And, to cap it all, after berating the press for running groundless , unsourced rumours, you end on one yourself.

(18) Well, any position can be made to seem groundless if one simply doesn't cite some of the strongest arguments in its defense.

(19) Fears of a whitewash might well prove groundless .

(20) The worst cases can lead to agoraphobia or other crippling effects and are very sad because the anxieties and fears which cause so much trouble are usually groundless .