Adjective : an ill-founded theory.    From Dictionary.com. 

I must say that the rabbi's fears might be ill-founded.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2003] Reference

That illusory hope proved to be ill-founded, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeremy Jacquot: The Week McCain's Environmental Credentials Went Extinct] Reference

KING: Michael Shermer, do these accounts seem ill-founded to you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2008] Reference

Roy Davenport later suggested that such pessimism was ill-founded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

Everywhere attempts at ill-founded generalization are encountered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

African renaissance are ill-founded and that Africa cannot guarantee her own future.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Under-Secretary for the Colonies stated in England with ill-founded optimism that 'the.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa: The Peasants Revolt] Reference

"Is it because you have read Joseph Andrews and find that my recommendation was ill-founded?".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unacceptable Offer]

It enters a layer, saturated by a pseudo atmosphere, of ill-founded pleasures and distractions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Spirit - a poem] Reference

Finally: let's hope that Macintyre's suggestion that Obama is "Hamlet-like" proves ill-founded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vietnam Watch: Ben Macintyre] Reference

After deep consideration he pronounces this experiment to be inexact, and the result ill-founded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

POWELL: There has been a lot of speculation, ill-founded speculation about the effect of weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2003] Reference

The whole work teems with generalisations, mostly ill-founded, and the details are not in agreement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Democracy] Reference

Verity, if your opinions on Palin are as ill-founded as your response to me, then I must ignore them.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Seems my Scoffing (geddit?) at English claims to have got the whole Bordeaux bottle rolling was ill-founded.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sangria To St Emilion] Reference

That perception is ill-founded, and the GI Bill should not be held up waiting on the resolution of that debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Wright: The New GI Bill: It's a Win-Win Proposition] Reference

"The decision by the HRC to make a meal out of ill-founded accusations against the media encourages that fear.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I also said I had a feeling many readers would take it as an ill-founded opportunity to get in some jabs at America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sasha Abramsky: Wildfires] Reference

The only people who don't know that are people, who for reasons both valid and ill-founded, long ago abandoned Detroit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles J. Brown: Can We Make "Buying American" Cool Again?] Reference

And yet, macro policy-making such as the Kyoto Protocol has been supported by an ill-founded perception of impending doom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Dawn] Reference

Surely freedom of belief is any Indian's fundamental right under our democratic Constitution, however ill-founded his belief might be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shashi Tharoor: Respect an Individual's Decision] Reference

Terror-stricken, the people rushed wildly in every direction, and the most ill-founded reports in the excitement gained ready credence.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference

But the numbers from actual research in the field (literally) suggest that their absolute certainty is ill-founded as well as self-serving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Goff: It's Not Rocket Science: Land Productivity, Food Rights] Reference

The prediction that a significant number of black officers and men would be ineligible for reassignment or further training proved ill-founded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

I wouldn't say that any of the peacekeeping operations here are ill-founded; as a matter of fact, I mentioned several that have worked very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Press Conference] Reference

That this was no ill-founded fear was evinced by a quarrel that took place between them, when John was perhaps eleven, and James twelve years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference

If so, and the suggestion is not ill-founded or improbable, it may be interpreted as an emphatic rejection of the influence of Marlowe and as a claim, on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

By Dumas, the young theorist, whose predictions, however, were not ill-founded, was presented to King Joseph, of whom he speaks in no very favourable terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

Dr. Franklin, however, by public letter, declared that this allegation was ill-founded, but would never reveal the name of the party to whom he was indebted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

Yet Foyle, with the unostentatious Maxwell at his right hand, hurried in the direction of Berkeley Square with a hope that his theory might not be ill-founded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grell Mystery] Reference

Cadfael's first thought was that this was no more than another of Jerome's acidities, impulsive, ill-founded, and certain to be refuted as soon as enquiry was made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heretic's Apprentice]

It ruled that he had voluntarily renounced his right to sit in the Commons and that his claim to have been denied his democratic rights was 'manifestly ill-founded'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]

This being the law, he added, it was an ill-founded apprehension that the metropolis was under martial-law, or that the military had more power since the riots than before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

That's why I think Senator Biden's idea is ill-founded about partitioning the country, having ethnic and religious apartheid in Iraq, because there will be regional consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2007] Reference

And taking upon him the character of a sort of minister of Justice, this assumed character of his, however ill-founded, proved of great advantage to him in the course of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference