How to Use unduly in a Sentence

unduly

adverb

• The punishment was unduly harsh.
• The harms of these moves were unduly foisted upon the poor and the Black.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020
• There are buttons near the rear of the boot / trunk to drop the seats forward without need to reach unduly or open the passenger doors.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• Put simply, the school district dumped Thom Holdgate — unduly, some say — but didn’t know what to do without him.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
• Nez also said that the bill would unduly restrict the ability of the tribal government to make best use of the funds.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 9 May 2020
• Courage also worried that putting that aspect of the program in the council’s hands would unduly politicize the shape of the program.
  — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Still, the assumption that the public was wise to the tricks of the trade always sounded unduly optimistic.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
• The Field 75 won’t unduly annoy colleagues when used in an open office.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• That oversight is meant to prevent unduly low payments to health care providers and steep bills for patients.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
• On the other hand, aid can be used to coerce journalists to change their norms and practices unduly.
  — Herman Wasserman, Quartz Africa, 9 July 2019
• Some of my co-workers suspect I am unduly influenced by the fact that Lambert is cute, blond and curvy.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
• That the quality of news is good and not unduly influenced.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 2 Nov. 2018
• That way, it won’t be unduly buffeted around by the performance of a few volatile holdings.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
• Lawson unduly spent the ’90s getting pushed aside to make space for white characters (Buffy!
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2021
• The court also found that the map unduly split several counties.
  — Ethan Cohen, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
• Nania’s driving force is not to be unduly influenced by the result of each play.
  — Manish Mehta, courant.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• There are no claims anyone has been unduly swayed by the Luttig connections.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2019
• There is also concern that small rural towns — where most large solar winds up — will be unduly hurt.
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2024
• And a suspicion that Mr Pompeo is unduly keen to stay tight with the president suggests only Mr Bolton might be up to it.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• Such preparatory work shouldn't unduly alarm the public, Johnson stressed; the odds that a big asteroid will strike Earth are very low on a day-to-day basis.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• That process can make the reports more vulnerable to being used to paint an unduly rosy picture.
  — Jean Eaglesham, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022
• Quinones stressed that the county intends to give vendors a shot at the contract, and wants to avoid unduly favoring one company over the other.
  — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 8 June 2018
• Hickey doesn’t seem unduly disturbed by the lack of awards attention.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 30 June 2022
• The daughter sued to have the will set aside, complaining that her mother had been unduly influenced by the false valentine rumor.
  — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2021
• That would be a bigger issue on a large external display, but didn’t unduly bother us on a 13-inch screen.
  — Wired, 9 Aug. 2022
• The pianist and composer Hasaan Ibn Ali is an unduly elusive presence in the history of jazz.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2021
• The posts on it were so obviously fraudulent that Hunter wasn’t unduly alarmed, but concerned enough to report the page to Facebook.
  — Nicola Pardy, refinery29.com, 3 May 2018
• The bigger mistake would be to unduly downplay MIS-C and overlook something serious amid the chaos.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 1 July 2020
• The jury has to make a decision based on actual facts of the crime and that is why a judge has to be careful to not let unduly prejudicial character evidence color a jury's decision-making.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• There are also people unduly aggravated by a puzzlemaster's puns and clever deceptions.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 May 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024