well-founded suspicions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But the accusations must be grave and well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
The whole is taken in faith on a well-founded trust. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Boasting aside, that confidence could be well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Digital Dreams] Reference
The demand of the Whigs for a change was well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
There cannot surely be any well-founded objection to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It is hard for those in power to bear a well-founded reproach. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
If it is being outbid, is it because its caution is well-founded?. From Wordnik.com. [HSBC Has Gone on the Civets Trail] Reference
There was no water now, for Inyati's fears had been well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
How well-founded this suspicion was she learned when she and Jess met. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
Such were the prospects, and such the well-founded hope of the Southern. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
We need a consistent and well-founded point of view from which to judge. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
From a commercial standpoint, Jive's concerns were, perhaps, well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Concert review: Big Boi at 9:30 Club] Reference
They wanted to be off, and hoped Cora's observations were not well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies] Reference
This is a nation with a well-founded humanitarian tradition (Geneva Conventions). From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: MAKING THE TOP 10] Reference
It was a wise and well-founded plan, and only as to its final result did it fail. From Wordnik.com. [Monopolies and the People] Reference
Two years later his fears for his brother's life have turned out to be well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [A Question Of Betrayal] Reference
Fred Hatfield's fears might have been well-founded had the mules not been so winded. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
She yielded to France her own well-founded claims to political influence in Morocco. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
Moreover, Story's and Marshall's concerns about injury to the Court were well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpts: 'Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View'] Reference
Sultan my husband, who is weighed down by the too well-founded presumption of our crime. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The well-founded and well-supported charges he made against the Democratic Legislature of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
His concerns, announced at the Pentagon on Friday afternoon, were almost certainly well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Casualty of War] Reference
A glance at my writing-table showed me that the impulse on which I had acted was only too well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
She ran from street to street, without meeting any person who could satisfy her well-founded impatience. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Still he said frankly and quietly that his original suspicion that Catharine was proud was well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
But to enter upon such a course of life with well-founded hope of success, we must be reverent and devout. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
But criticism must be well-founded from a scientific point of view and not stem from an emotional reaction. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
Accusations of malingering (well-founded, as it turns out) have a familiar ring of racism to sensitive black ears. From Wordnik.com. [Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes] Reference
Even Silvey, the optimist, who had furnished the motive power, had looked at the wreckage in well-founded despair. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
At present there is a great complaint about the pressure of the times, and the complaint is doubtless well-founded. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
But as Fitzwater's anecdote suggests, Kemp also has a well-founded reputation for being something of a loose cannon. From Wordnik.com. [Throwing Long] Reference
The experience of sloppy Russia police work gave him a well-founded feeling of invulnerability which was to last for years. From Wordnik.com. [From Russia, With Love] Reference
It is not an achieved social order or a well-founded doctrine that must merely be exploited and spread abroad over the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
The motive of this signal breach of imperial courtesy was, doubtless, the well-founded belief that Margaret was bearing home to. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
And like seriously ill patients, they need a clear yet flexible action plan that takes them beyond blind optimism to well-founded hope. From Wordnik.com. [America’s New Shrink] Reference
"A fascinating outline filled in with many valuable facts and much well-founded knowledge of the history and animal life of the earth.". From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
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