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Undue

adjective

Not yet payable.

Not appropriate or proper (or even legal) in the circumstances. "I didn't want to show undue excitement" , "Accused of using undue force"

Lacking justification or authorization. Synonyms: unjustified, unwarranted. "Unwarranted limitations of personal freedom"

Beyond normal limits. Synonyms: excessive, inordinate, unreasonable. "A book of inordinate length" , "His dress stops just short of undue elegance" , "Unreasonable demands"

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"Undue" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the main street of Charlottesville. He kept the pace of a man who wishes to be at home before the rain falls, but his manner of going showed no undue haste and no trepidation. Faces at doors and windows, men gathered before the Eagle and the post-office, greeted him. He answered each salute in kind, and at the Eagle drew rein long enough to reply to the ...

— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... doctrine of redemption or atonement; but simply endeavored to put what the New Testament said on these subjects in its true light. In most of those works, if not in all of them, there are evidences of undue excitement, and in many of them there are passages which, in one's calmer and more candid mood, ...

— Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again - A Life Story • Joseph Barker

... good Mohammedans, and look upon the slaying of a Christian as a most meritorious act, but at the same time they were too cautious to endanger their plot or their own lives by undue haste. ...

— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn

... stately form, in full armour, save the helmet, and with a mantle of azure velvet, wrought with the silver cross that made the badge of the Christian war. Upon his manly countenance was visible no sign of undue arrogance or exultation; but something of that generous pity which brave men feel for conquered foes dimmed the lustre of his commanding eye, and softened the wonted sternness of his martial bearing. He and ...

— Leila or, The Siege of Granada, Book V. • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... his own compositions. And many facts in the history of his career as an executant would seem to confirm the correctness of such a feeling. At any rate, after what we have read we cannot attribute his intention of studying under Kalkbrenner to undue self-depreciation. For did he not consider his own playing as good as that of Herz, and feel that he had in him the stuff to found a new era in music? But what was it then that attracted him to Kalkbrenner, and made him exalt this pianist above all the pianists ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

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