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Example sentences for "unduly"

Lexicographically close words:
undulating; undulation; undulations; undulatory; undulatus; undutiful; undyed; undying; undyr; une
  1. Often to Esther it seems Oswald is unduly reserved, fearing long looking into her eyes or lingering touches of that confiding hand as useless toying with forbidden things.

  2. So far from unduly fostering a bellicose spirit tending to war, these would be tactful preventives of wasteful foreign and civil broils.

  3. It ought not to be expected that all curb their tastes to conform to the fastidious notions of a few, nor should this fashionable minority be unduly blamed for exclusive whims.

  4. Finally, deciding not to be unduly harsh in his judgment, as there might have been mitigating circumstances, he is feeling a sense of self-approval, when voices are heard.

  5. You have heard all, and I hope will not unduly censure.

  6. Ancus, unduly vain, even already delighting too much in the veering wind of the people's favour.

  7. He was not sure that this task would be easy in itself, but it was rendered much more difficult by the fact that Hawtrey would expect him to accomplish it without unduly daunting her.

  8. He was extravagant and careless--at least I thought that then--but now it seems to me that I was unduly hard on him.

  9. He was anxious about his patient, but not unduly so, for he had discovered long ago that men of Wyllard's type are apt to recover from more serious injuries.

  10. She was anxious, but not unduly so, for she knew that men who live as the prairie farmers do usually more or less readily recover from such injuries as had befallen him.

  11. To charge that its exercise unduly controls the legislative will is to complain of the Constitution itself.

  12. This work appertains to the local authorities, and the responsibility and the penalty will be appalling if it is neglected or unduly delayed.

  13. The discretion granted to the Executive by the terms "unduly discriminatory" is wide.

  14. No favored class should demand freedom from assessment, and the taxes should be so distributed as not to fall unduly on the poor, but rather on the accumulated wealth of the country.

  15. Taxation would not then fall unduly on the man of moderate means; and while none would be entirely exempt from assessment, all, in proportion to their pecuniary abilities, would contribute toward the support of the State.

  16. The local death rates, especially from preventable diseases, are so unduly high as to suggest that the exceptional wholesomeness of Washington's better sections is offset by bad conditions in her poorer neighborhoods.

  17. Credits are not unduly extended, and every phase of the situation seems in a state of preparedness for a period of unexampled prosperity.

  18. We did not seek an excess possession of the world's gold, and we have neither desire to profit Unduly by its possession nor permanently retain it.

  19. It is due to the Government of Spain to say that during the past year it has promptly disavowed and offered reparation for any unauthorized acts of unduly zealous subordinates whenever such acts have been brought to its attention.

  20. I must have looked queer to my friend as I grinned to myself over this vow; but my relish of the way I was keeping things together made me perhaps for the instant unduly rash.

  21. There was apparently, I was obliged to admit, but little apprehension in her of her unduly showing that our meeting had been anything of a blessing to her.

  22. As for the water in its laid-on state, it was held by the more aristocratic citizens to be unduly expensive (500 reis per cubic metre), and they grumbled.

  23. Of course, my dear sir, you understand that I am not unduly curious.

  24. He did look, however, and what he saw was interesting certainly and might have been alarming had he been a person easily frightened or unduly apprehensive.

  25. This being so, the wood in the centre may be hollowed out without unduly weakening struts and spars.

  26. Their carrying capacity is generally limited to two or four passengers, so that the batteries do not require to be unduly heavy.

  27. In order that the new writers may stand an equal chance with the old, and the old not unduly depend upon their reputations, the names of writers are not given until the number following the one in which their articles appear.

  28. The body must be cleansed internally, by means of the "Cascade," using it as frequently as the condition of the patient will permit, without unduly taxing the system.

  29. I remember even as a small boy suffering unduly from the pangs of hunger, going from fruiterer to book-shop and from book-shop to fruiterer, wondering which I really wanted more, the romance or the pound of cherries.

  30. It seemed unduly lonely at home during Christmas week compared with the noisy cheeriness of school.

  31. They appear to be unduly grateful to me for what I have done for Tony.

  32. That the Whigs of his own day should have behaved as they did, on many occasions exceedingly ill to him, is no more unnatural than that they should have unduly exaggerated his virtues after his death.

  33. William's reputation for generalship, perhaps unduly raised by his recent exploits in Ireland, underwent a serious decline.

  34. Even if it could be shown that the proportion of the royal grants to the total forfeitures was unduly magnified through an over-estimate of the value of the former, I cannot see that it would affect the merits of the case.

  35. Moreover, mere tenants owning nothing but their improvements, and even these being subject to government appraisement, may be unduly tempted to drain, rather than to develop, the resources of the land they occupy.

  36. To base our civilization upon fear entails uniformity, monotony of life; the sacrifice of peoples for the unduly exalted traits and national ideals of a single homogeneous social group--a single all-powerful nation.

  37. Because Henry Fielding was above all things a great creative genius his wise and strenuous efforts to raise social conditions, and to eradicate social sores, have been unduly forgotten.

  38. The Lycosa, therefore, well aware of these lingering eventualities, waits and is not unduly distressed by a prolonged abstinence.

  39. However, an unduly protracted stay on the sticky threads would have its drawbacks.

  40. For a long time the body is repeatedly shaken, but in vain; the tibiae or tarsi, unduly hard, refuse to yield to the patient saw.

  41. This act, as has been shown, was considered to unduly favor the Presbyterians.

  42. He even refused to license the publication of a sermon that most unduly exalted the king's prerogative, and he forbade the reading of James's proclamation permitting games and sports on Sunday.

  43. This brilliant classification of the stages of early culture will be found very helpful if we only keep in mind the fact that in all wide generalizations of this sort the case is liable to be somewhat unduly simplified.

  44. There was some beautiful English thread lace about four inches wide, just as it had lain away for years, wrapped in soft white paper, with a cake of white wax to keep it from turning unduly yellow.

  45. Mrs. Leverett gently questioned Doris--she was not an aggressive woman, nor unduly curious.

  46. To my way of thinking, they have ever since been unduly modest about this truly historic achievement.

  47. Your sisters are all well, but the troubles in the Valley take young men's thoughts unduly off the subject of marriage.

  48. To Aristophanes he gave the dramatic sympathy which one lover of life can extend to another, though that other unduly extol its lower forms.

  49. They are not easily replaced, and it is the duty of artillery officers to represent to the commander of the column whenever they consider that their horses are being unduly worked, as regards either pace or distance.

  50. No doubt this list of supreme leaders in the arts is unduly scanted; but there is wisdom in Taine's parsimony of praise.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unduly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agonizingly; awfully; bitterly; blatantly; cruelly; deadly; deathly; distressingly; dreadfully; ever; excessively; excruciatingly; extravagantly; extremely; fault; flagrantly; frightfully; grievously; grossly; horribly; immensely; improperly; inexcusably; inordinately; intemperately; intolerably; miserably; openly; outrageously; over; overfull; overly; overmuch; painfully; sadly; sorely; super; terribly; too; unduly