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well-founded [wel-foun-did] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for well-founded on Thesaurus.com adjective
- having a foundation in fact; based on good reasons, information, etc.: well-founded suspicions.
Origin of well-founded Middle English word dating back to 1325–75 Related Words for well-founded factual, solid, proven, substantiated Examples from the Web for well-founded 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.
Tom LeClair
June 24, 2013
Assumptions that the Republican nominee automatically wins statewide office in South Carolina are well-founded but not uniform.
John Avlon
October 16, 2010
“His language is off the scale but his sense of injustice is often well-founded,” Ralph Nader told the Beast.
Benjamin Sarlin
March 2, 2010
There was no proof at all, nothing to link him to the crime except some well-founded suspicion.
John Grisham’s Debut Short Story
John Grisham
October 26, 2009
Historical Examples of well-founded
I talked to him, and quickly realized my fears were well-founded.
Ridgwell Cullum
He had a well-founded apprehension of the storm of opposition which they would arouse.
R. S. Ball
Perhaps there was a well-founded feeling that they proved too much.
A History of the United States
Cecil Chesterton
Our grief is too well-founded for reason to be able to cause it to cease.
Hortense, Makers of History Series
John S. C. Abbott
It is hard for those in power to bear a well-founded reproach.
Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
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British Dictionary definitions for well-founded well-founded adjective (well founded when postpositive)
- having good groundswell-founded rumours