What is "unduly"

Usage examples of "unduly".

It was at this latter house, one evening three or four days after his meeting with Hortensia in the park, that the chance was afforded him at last of vindicating her honor in a manner that need not add to the scandal that was already abroad, nor serve to couple his name with hers unduly.

The absence of Ralph Paton was commented on by the coroner, but not unduly stressed.

The cruder early notions of resettling the land by fostering peasant proprietorship, with habitable houses and security of tenure, were already under a cloud, since it was more than suspected that they would interfere unduly with the game laws and other soundly vested interests.

But using your bedroom to assemble them would unduly affect your privacy -- not to speak of recovering your lost sleep!

State where it takes place, their purchase for an established market in another State is interstate commerce and as such is neither regulatable nor taxable by the State of origin, provided at any rate their trans-shipment is not unduly delayed.

Had New York City suddenly turned up in the Sargasso, they would have been glad to see it--but not unduly surprised.

Based on this, Scherk and Schwarz suggested that string theory had failed in its initial attempt because physicists had unduly constrained its scope.

I thought the president was unduly attempting to exert his influence, especially in light of the fact that the bioethics panel appointed to advise him had not yet issued its opinion.

Where a ledge of shelving rock, of considerable size, occurs on land to be drained, it is best to make some provision for collecting, at its base, the water flowing over its surface, and taking it at once into the drains, so that it may not make the land near it unduly wet.

Boerhaave, Pare, and Fabricius Hildanus all speak of this untoward effect of venery, and in modern times Poncet has made observations at a hospital in Lyons which prove that during the process of healing wounds are unduly and harmfully influenced by coitus, and cites confirmatory instances.

Among the defects which he might have overcome is one that is visible in his earlier painting as well as in his sculpture, and which in painting he got rid of, though evidently not without difficulty--I mean, a tendency to get some of his figures unduly below life size.

The fifth day took them to Gomel, the sixth well past Chernigov, and they arrived in Kiev, not unduly fatigued, in time for luncheon on the seventh day, which Galina thought quite remarkable, and she consulted Igor about some extra payment to the jager for his efficiency, which appeared to cause Igor some amusement.

That in itself does not concern Christians unduly, for they maintain that his Messiahship went far beyond, in spiritual terms, what the Jews expected of it.

This service in the minds of tribesmen replaced the old customary obligation of military service that they owed the shaykh and was not unduly onerous.

The youth was unduly confident in the superstitious terror in which the denizens of this vast, reeking, unaesthetic jumble of a city held their primitive firearms, or perhaps his confidence was chemically enhanced.