Both Uses of
baseless
in
Hard Times
- Mr. Gradgrind usually improved these occasions by remarking, when she was gone, that if Jupe had been properly trained from an early age she would have remonstrated to herself on sound principles the baselessness of these fantastic hopes.†
Chpt 1.9
- It was even harder than he could have believed possible, to separate in his own conscience his abandonment by all his fellows from a baseless sense of shame and disgrace.†
Chpt 2.4 *
Definition:
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(baseless) without a basis in reason or fact