UNDUE in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for UNDUE, such as:

1. I was grateful, without showing undue excitement.
2. I did not act, however, with undue precipitation.
3. Such a high increase will impose an undue burden on the local tax payer.
4. If she ignored his note it would give undue importance to a trivial affair.
5. Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the loving mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNDUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
undue
 a.  not due; not yet owing; not just, proper, or legal; ; excessive
Classic Sentence:
1  I did not act, however, with undue precipitation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
2  'Master of the workhouse,' rejoined Mr. Bumble, slowly and impressively, to check any undue familiarity the stranger might otherwise assume.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  His manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little bend of the knees as he walked.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
4  Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the loving mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
5  He read the letter through and felt pleased with it, and especially that he had remembered to enclose money: there was not a harsh word, not a reproach in it, nor was there undue indulgence.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
6  The seated throng, filling the immense room without undue crowding, presented a surface of rich tissues and jewelled shoulders in harmony with the festooned and gilded walls, and the flushed splendours of the Venetian ceiling.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
7  If she ignored his note it would give undue importance to a trivial affair.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
8  Oh, no, sir; from my childhood I have seen too much, and understood too much, of what has passed around me, for misfortune to have an undue power over me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
9  In the first place, to enable a citizen to work harm and to acquire undue authority, many circumstances must be present which never can be present in a State which is not corrupted.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
Example Sentence:
1  I was grateful, without showing undue excitement.
2  Such a high increase will impose an undue burden on the local tax payer.