What is "undue"

Usage examples of "undue".

Whatever tends to favor an undue accumulation of blood in the hemorrhoidal veins predisposes to piles.

Any show of undue affluence would be bound to estrange at least one part of the community.

And he gives this answer to the said accused who make this undue appeal in the form of negative apostils, and commands that they be given to him immediately after the said appeal.

Bush and the return of much of the team that had overseen the Desert Storm campaign cause for undue alarm.

There was a grand assurance in the rigidity of its uprightness, a calm self-assertion in its uncompromising straightness, as if, poised upon circumvagant roots, that, in exploring the quartzy soil, had curled themselves around a layer of primeval granite, it knew that nothing short of an earthquake which should have power to upheave the foundations of the hill itself could compel its stately body to the performance of any undue genuflexions.

I do not wish to belabor it or give undue reproof, but you cannot be called of position and character.

Prince Ferdinand is placed with regard to the Portuguese people, and the great suspicion with which all foreigners he brought here into his service are viewed, renders it necessary that the utmost caution, should be observed by the English residing in Portugal with respect to private interviews either with her most faithful majesty or her august consort, that neither the government nor the people may have a pretext for entertaining any undue impressions of the intentions of England.

Lifting the stereoscope to his eyes, Marcus examined the view of the Colosseum in Rome with undue concentration.

Still, we had done our best to free him from these undue burdens by precise, up-to-date, and superseding advice, which he rejected.

All things considered indeed, it may be said, without undue exaggeration, that the really undemocratic and unfraternal thing is the common practice of not kicking the butler downstairs.

As he is one of the leaders of the irreconcilable Afrikander group he cannot be suspected of undue sympathy towards England.

In nightmares and in prophecy Apollonius had seen him disguising himself as a crippled beggar during the day, so that no one would take undue notice of him, then changing shape in the dusk and stalking the Ephesians by night, a great monster half-wolf, half-man, a lycanthrope who reveled in the killings.

Undue expenditure of this class of brain functions not only consumes the bodily powers, but exhausts and prevents other mental operations.

It promotes increased reabsorption of salt in the kidney tubules, keeps potassium ions from leaving the cells to an undue extent, and maintains the proper volume of water outside the cells.

By this means the blood-making organs rapidly improve in their activity and functions, the blood becomes rich in corpuscles and fibrin, thus strengthening the walls of the blood-vessels and tending to prevent a hemorrhage following undue excitement or injury.