1
: not due : not yet payable
2
: exceeding or violating propriety or fitness : excessive
undue force
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Examples of undue in a Sentence
These requirements shouldn't cause you any undue hardship.
His writing is elegant without calling undue attention to itself.
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Aysheh Abuarqub, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2025
The lawsuit contended that high insulin prices imposed undue burdens on insulin-dependent individuals.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2025
Moreover, closed-door meetings between administration officials and major Bitcoin miners ahead of these announcements further highlight the risk of information asymmetry, where privileged market participants could gain undue advantage.
—Alexandra Andhov, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Wagner would be a sleepless highbrow’s favorite; the long, lush, unbroken lines of music share with the white-noise hum of the air-conditioner or the thrum of the painstaking lecture the quality of being absorbing without offering undue eventfulness.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Undue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undue. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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undue
adjective
un·due
ˌən-ˈd(y)ü 
1
: not due
2
: excessive
undue profit
Legal Definition
undue
adjective
un·due
ˌən-ˈdü, -ˈdyü
1
: not due : not yet payable
an undue bill
2
: exceeding or violating propriety or fitness
would impose undue hardship on the debtors
such a requirement would place an undue burden on employers
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