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  1. adjective Various; miscellaneous: a purse containing keys, wallet, and sundry items.

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  • An official green road sign proclaims this to all and sundry, and is perhaps the single most photographed bit of public road signage to be found anywhere east of Hollywood and Vine. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • Like schoolboys in their classrooms after the examinations, all and sundry were attending to those little jobs which are usually put off until later, finding in their drawers forgotten reports, statistics to be worked out, dreary administrative tasks. —  Maigret has Scruples - Georges Simenon - 80
  • My apologies to all and sundry (but in particular to my fellow Israelis) for ignoring the war on my blog. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
  • While some in modern Canada are quite keen on government writing a blank check to all and sundry, those who believe in some degree of fiscal restraint support reasonable eligibility requirements. —  Home
  • So here is my challenge to all and sundry: give me concrete evidence that Hillary Clinton demonstrates true understanding of foreign and domestic politics. —  Nicholas D. Kristof
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  1. Middle English sundri, from Old English syndrig, separate.

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  1. Also dial. sindry; from Middle English sundry, sondry, sindry, from Anglo-Saxon syndrig, separate (= Old High German suntarīc, Middle High German sunderig = Swedish söndrig, broken, tattered), from sundor, apart, separately: see sunder, adv.
 

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