undue

[Un*due·]

When something isn't appropriate or justified, you can describe it as undue. For example, an undue delay in a hospital waiting room can be dangerous for someone with a bad injury.

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Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.

Adjective
not yet payable; "an undue loan"

Adjective
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"

Adjective S.
beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"

Adjective S.
lacking justification or authorization; "unreasonable searches and seizures"; "desire for undue private profit"; "unwarranted limitations of personal freedom"


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.


Undue

Un*due" , a. 1. Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond. 2. Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding. Bacon. 3. 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. Undue influence (Law), any improper or wrongful constraint, machination, or urgency of persuasion, by which one's will is overcome and he is induced to do or forbear an act which he would not do, or would do, if left to act freely. Abbott.

Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.

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Usage Examples

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

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