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undue

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1. undue - Adjective

2. undue - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.

Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.

Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. Jean de La Bruyère

Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently. Yousef Saanei

There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not?... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation. Jakaya Kikwete

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. Fran Lebowitz

There is perhaps nothing more important in the world today than the steadiness and consistency of the foreign policy of this Republic. Too much depends on the United States for us to indulge in the luxury of either undue pessimism or premature optimism. Dean Acheson

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. Hasidic Proverb

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