groundlessly
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[edit]From groundless + -ly.
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[edit]groundlessly (comparative more groundlessly, superlative most groundlessly)
- In a groundless manner; without justification.
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- Shame, disappointment, and discomfiture gnawed at his heart; a constant apprehension of being overtaken, or met—for he was groundlessly afraid even of travellers, who came towards him by the way he was going—oppressed him heavily.
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