well-founded
Origin of well-founded
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Contemporary Examples of well-founded
Kim now knows the “well-founded fear” that asylum seekers must prove they have to be accepted by a host country.
Assumptions that the Republican nominee automatically wins statewide office in South Carolina are well-founded but not uniform.
“His language is off the scale but his sense of injustice is often well-founded,” Ralph Nader told the Beast.
There was no proof at all, nothing to link him to the crime except some well-founded suspicion.
Historical Examples of well-founded
I talked to him, and quickly realized my fears were well-founded.
The Law-BreakersRidgwell Cullum
He had a well-founded apprehension of the storm of opposition which they would arouse.
Great AstronomersR. S. Ball
Perhaps there was a well-founded feeling that they proved too much.
A History of the United StatesCecil Chesterton
Our grief is too well-founded for reason to be able to cause it to cease.
Hortense, Makers of History SeriesJohn S. C. Abbott
It is hard for those in power to bear a well-founded reproach.