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unduly

/ʌnˈdjuːli/

unduly adverb: undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted.

Adverb

unduly (comparative more unduly, superlative most unduly)

  1. Undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted.
    • The speaker unduly criticized his opponent and later apologized for this.
    • The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

unduly meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

unduly in Urdu

بےاعتدالی سے, بلاسبب, خوامخواہ, ناجائز

unduly in Malayalam

അനധികൃതമായി, ക്രമാതീതമായി, കാര്യമില്ലാതെ, അനുചിതമായി

unduly in Kannada

ಬೇಡದೆ, ಮಿಗಿಲಾಗಿ, ಮಸಕವಾಗಿ, ಅನುಚಿತವಾಗಿ, ನಿಷ್ಕಾರಣವಾಗಿ, ಅನಗತ್ಯವಾಗಿ

Examples of unduly in a sentence

  • As bad decisions are dressed up in pseudo-analytical garb, ministerial officials may become unduly cynical about analysis.
  • “Obasan, not now.” CDI Jones was unduly rude.
  • "I don't find you unduly piggish," she said.

All 16 example sentences with unduly

Forms of unduly

comparativemore unduly
superlativemost unduly

Origin of unduly

From undue + -ly or un- + duly.

Questions about unduly

What does unduly mean?
Unduly means undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted.
What is unduly in Urdu?
Unduly in Urdu is بےاعتدالی سے, بلاسبب, خوامخواہ. See Unduly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is unduly?
Unduly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce unduly?
Unduly is pronounced /ʌnˈdjuːli/.

Words near unduly in the dictionary

  1. undulls
  2. unduloid
  3. unduloids
  4. undulose
  5. undulous
  6. unduly
  7. undumb
  8. undumbed
  9. undumber
  10. undumbest
  11. undumbing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unduly (page history and authors); unduly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unduly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unduly (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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