Read full poem →Nevertheless the very plenitude of this
poetry takes undue hold upon us. Hence
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Dictionary Entry
Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.
In a Sentence
“To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment.”
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Common Phrases
influence unduehardship unduedelay undueemphasis unduepressure undueburden undueundue withoutundue any
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Poetry examples for “undue”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Undue Significance a starving man attaches
To Food --
Read full poem →These statistics indicate that undue lengthening of the grazing period should be
Read full poem →Germany,—Tieck, Novalis, Jean Paul Richter,—and gives to these writers,
really gifted as two, at any rate, of them are, an undue prominence.
These writers, and others with aims and a general tendency the same as