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How to use unduly in a sentence

16 example sentences · adverb

Unduly means undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted. Example: “The speaker unduly criticized his opponent and later apologized for this.”

Examples of unduly by meaning

adverbUndeservedly; in a way that is not warranted.

  • The speaker unduly criticized his opponent and later apologized for this.
  • The departure was not unduly prolonged.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
  • There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

More sentences with unduly

  • As bad decisions are dressed up in pseudo-analytical garb, ministerial officials may become unduly cynical about analysis.2017, Patsy Healey, Jean Hillier, Foundations of the Planning Enterprise, →ISBN. From the entry pseudo-analytical
  • “Obasan, not now.” CDI Jones was unduly rude.2020, M. David Scoble, Zach Tragic in Forgotten Tokyo: A Near-Future Bad Luck Thriller, Moogi and Wil Books. From the entry obasan
  • "I don't find you unduly piggish," she said.2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry vote of confidence
  • This is because of the increased pulling power of the retro jet which would make manual retraction unduly laborious.1980, Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants Operator's Newsletter. From the entry hydropump
  • A day comes when you are excited, or unduly ambitious and, without perceiving it at the time, you overwalk yourself .1908, Luther Halsey Gulick, Mind and Work, page 50. From the entry overwalk
  • The deltoid is wasted, and the acromion unduly prominent.1904, Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery. From the entry acromion
  • Unless the delay before take-off is unduly long, or some exigency exists, experienced passengers who are continuing on the flight do not leave the plane.1983, W. Boyd Littrell, Gideon Sjoberg, Louis A. Zurcher, Bureaucracy as a social problem, page 209. From the entry reboarder
  • In very faulted seam zones unduly high power ontakes of the plough drives showed that the set values were already too high.1982, Glückauf: Volume 118, Issues 19-24. From the entry ontake
  • But Daylight was not unduly uxorious.1910 October, Jack London, Burning Daylight, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry uxorious
  • Unfortunately, many patients (and some doctors) have "steroidphobia," which means that they are unduly apprehensive about using prednisone for short periods of time in unstable asthma.2002, Paul J. Hannaway, Asthma-- an Emerging Epidemic. From the entry steroidphobia
  • Of course, there’s nothing criminal about keeping a bear in your bathroom, but it’s a bit unusual, and I suppose I’m unduly sensitive about appearing odd.1906 November 10, “Letters to Unsuccessful Men: Being Certain Letters Selected from the Private Correspondence of the Spurlock Family”, in…. From the entry bearie
  • He reckons that about 80% of the boys in the school regularly received the cuts from Mr Saunders so he didn′t feel as if he was being unduly picked on.2001, Lyall Ford, Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town, page 55. From the entry cuts
  • Carelessness may be manifested in unduly brief replies to open questions or projective stimuli, and in hasty reading of closed questions, resulting in mischecks or random responses or position habits.1968, Gardner Lindzey, Elliot Aronson, The Handbook of Social Psychology: Research methods, page 237. From the entry mischeck

Meaning of unduly

  1. adverb Undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted.

Full definition of unduly

Questions about unduly in a sentence

How do you use unduly in a sentence?
Unduly is used as an adverb. For example: “The speaker unduly criticized his opponent and later apologized for this.”
What is a short sentence with unduly?
“But Daylight was not unduly uxorious.”
What does unduly mean?
Unduly means undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted.

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