Undue

//ʌnˈdjuː//

"Undue" in a Sentence (12 examples)

There is no cause for undue alarm.

Jealousy is the undue concern about the preservation of that which can only be lost if not worth keeping.

"O by the gods, who know the just and true, / by faith unstained – if any such there be –, / with mercy deign such miseries to view; / pity a soul that toils with evils all undue."

Borrower Kevin J. Rosenberg, 46, of Beacon, N.Y., asked the court to forgive his student debt because repaying the loans was impossible and created an undue hardship, the legal test of whether a debtor should be forgiven.

"A lot more people should be filing and trying to prove undue hardship, because they would be successful if they actually came before a judge,” Iuliano advised.

Avoid undue tension.

There's no need to take undue risks.

Do nothing that will bring undue attention to yourself.

It's undue risk.

It was all because of my undue credulity.

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To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment.

But even if they don’t announce themselves on the cover of the Times business section, groups of millionaires exercise undue influence on every aspect of American life every day.

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