1
: not due : not yet payable
2
: exceeding or violating propriety or fitness : excessive
undue force
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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Pope Francis died quickly on April 21 without suffering undue pain, and there was nothing that doctors could have done to save his life, said Sergio Alfieri, a physician at Rome's Gemelli hospital and head of the pontiff's medical team, Reuters reported.
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
The volume’s premise is that institutional defects in the electoral system give extreme candidates and factions an undue voice, producing a disproportionate number of extremist winners.
—Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
The pattern of compromise persisted, with the politics of the border states still exerting undue influence.
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In that same 2019 British Vogue conversation, Watson opened up about feeling an influx of undue pressure about aging out of her 20s.
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
The volume’s premise is that institutional defects in the electoral system give extreme candidates and factions an undue voice, producing a disproportionate number of extremist winners.
—Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
The pattern of compromise persisted, with the politics of the border states still exerting undue influence.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
In that same 2019 British Vogue conversation, Watson opened up about feeling an influx of undue pressure about aging out of her 20s.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for undue
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“Undue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undue. Accessed 2 May. 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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