groundless charge , także: groundless demur

"I have worries enough without having to defend myself against completely groundless charges."

Bury had expelled one of the fellows on a probably groundless charge.

And the theory with the most support is that white prosecutors conspire to bring groundless charges against black elected officials.

They were soon on trial for their lives, faced with perfectly groundless charges, the commonest being incest.

'Groundless Charges' "Thousands of Poles underwent repressions and deportations," he went on.

Ferrier, Dr., groundless charge brought against, for infringement of Vivisection Act.

There are two groundless charges that are not true: the first is that they are not captured because we don't want to capture them.

"We have got to change this unproductive course, making groundless charges of mismanagement," he said, speaking with the dispassion of an academic in an interview last week.

The South Korean President said North Korea "continues to evade its international duties on account of groundless charges and excuses."

Last summer he tried to stir up an investigation into the groundless charge that Gov. Michael Dukakis had tipped off land dealers to the site of a proposed new prison.

"Will citizens who believe in justice remain silent while [Carlo] Tresca and the other leaders of the Mesabi Range strikers are being tried for their lives on an utterly groundless charge of murder?"

In November, 1881, an absolutely groundless charge was brought by the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection against Dr. Ferrier for an infringement of the Vivisection Act.

I also knew that I was reaching the end of what I could do at H.H.C. Under the circumstances, I believed it would have been fruitless to spend my remaining months as president spending all my time fighting groundless charges.

The document warns that both bishops and theologians "can become the target of complaints and charges which have no substance and merit," and proposes that screening committees be established to keep "groundless charges" from distracting bishops and theologians from their work.

Subsequently Ms. Gómez-Pérez alleged that, as a result of filing her complaint, in retaliation she was subjected to a series of reprisals that included groundless charges of sexual harassment, substantial reductions in her hours, and being harassed and mocked by her co-workers.