Undue
[ʌn'djuː] or [,ʌn'du]
Definition
(adj.) not yet payable; 'an undue loan' .
(adj.) not appropriate or proper (or even legal) in the circumstances; 'undue influence'; 'I didn't want to show undue excitement'; 'accused of using undue force' .
(adj.) lacking justification or authorization; 'desire for undue private profit'; 'unwarranted limitations of personal freedom' .
Typed by Geoffrey--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
(a.) Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.
(a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.
Inputed by Eleanor
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unsuitable, improper, excessive, inordinate, immoderate.
Edited by Ingram
Definition
adj. not due or owing: improper: immoderate: excessive.—n. Undue′ness.
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Examples
- An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- No, I am not conscious of undue excitement. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Had she shown an undue eagerness for victory? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She will not even permit of undue familiarity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the preceding Section we saw that undue pressure of a gas may cause explosion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The weapon is air cooled and can be fired steadily for about 10 minutes without undue heating. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This chapter has run to undue length, but it must not close without one citation from high authority as to the service of the military telegraph corps so often referred to in it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Yet she had not to complain of an undue shortening of existence; her faded person shewed that life had naturally spent itself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Damp clothing should never be worn, because the moisture in it tends to evaporate at the expense of the bodily heat, and this undue loss of heat from the body produces chills. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But even in such things there was an undue reliance upon mere custom, followed blindly rather than understandingly. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Undue humility makes tyranny; weak concession creates selfishness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And undue absorption at the outset in the physical object of sense hampers this growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There was no undue loss of life in reaching the lower end of Monterey, except that sustained by Garland's command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- While I do not propose to cause them any undue annoyance or loss, I cannot consent to leave myself under any restraint by stipulations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Master of the workhouse,' rejoined Mr. Bumble, slowly and impressively, to check any undue familiarity the stranger might otherwise assume. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Ever and anon she spread her satin dress over an undue portion of the bench, or laid her gloves or her embroidered handkerchief upon it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the calm with which you learnt you had become suddenly rich, I read a mind clear of the vice of Demas:--lucre had no undue power over you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The next point was to secure a joint between contiguous rails such as would permit of the passage of several thousand amperes without introducing undue resistance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is possible to induce undue and crippling dependence upon sense-presentations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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