Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Excessively; immoderately: unduly familiar with strangers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an undue manner or degree; wrongly; improperly; excessively; inordinately.
Wiktionary
- adv. Undeservedly, not warranted.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an undue manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. to an undue degree
Etymologies
- undue + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Drawing attention to what he called unduly stringent time regulations and unstructured or inconclusive meetings, Ledger said not all interested parties had been given a chance to comment on the plan.”
“Rest assured, by the way, that any comments you may post here that indulge in unduly coarse language will be deleted.”
“A widespread sense prevailed that de Man's thinking posed, in unduly formalist fashion, the literary text against or outside of history rather than embedded in it.”
History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin
“And although Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton yesterday blamed regulatory issues for the collapse of the deal, insiders have suggested that further improvements in the economic climate - and in Rio's financial position - since the scheme was proposed left Rio management feeling the terms unduly favoured BHP.”
“(d) to otherwise restrain or injure competition unduly, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding ten million dollars or to both”
“I don’t want them to sag, or to look funny, or to deviate unduly from the breasts of those women whom I find attractive.”
“Now customers are in a new stage of recovery for the rest, slogging through what some describe as an unduly arduous claims process.”
The Wall Street Journal: MF Global Customers Wrapped in Red Tape
“Ah!" exclaimed the Postilion with a slow nod, and drawing out the word unduly, "and talking o 'sheets and beds -- what about my second passenger?”
“Of course, Doctor, if you find the word miracle unduly sectarian, we can substitute success.”
“To take but one point: Mr. Sleuth did not ask to be called unduly early.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘unduly’.
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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February 2012
filiopietistic, bifurcate, enclave, wedlock, decadent, unduly, defunct, lapel, tumescent, capitulation, leaden, scintilla and 83 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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My List
A list of words that I have generated over time.
cairn, cacodaemoniacal, abash, abject, abjure, abstemious, abhor, abnegate, abnegation, abscond, abstruse, acclivity and 702 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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Known
stethoscope, triage, yule, vanity, bonehead, folly, petty, perpendicular, burnish, citrus, intrepid, waft and 52 more...
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7 apr 2012
Long-overdue words found elsewhere.
apocryphal, gumption, nous, inoculate, bubonic, hierophant, tumescent, declivitous, capacious, veritable, disquisition, Stentorian and 40 more...
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vocabulary list
bodacious, lugubrious, elegiac, inestimable, scaffold, persiflage, iniquitous, unduly, presentiment, lissom, chafe, melange and 1 more...
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