unduly

undue | American Dictionary

undue
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ʌnˈdu/
more than is necessary, acceptable, or reasonable:
The court said the state law placed an undue burden on working mothers.

unduly

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ʌnˈdu·li/
He does not seem unduly concerned about the state of the economy.

undue | Business English

undue
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ʌnˈdjuː/us
more than is acceptable or necessary:
Another rise in interest rates so soon would risk spreading undue alarm among businesses and consumers.
undue pressure/strain/hardshipA council member said the package was the best deal the city could offer the company without putting undue strain on the city's finances.
an undue burden/risk/delayOpponents have argued that the bill is an undue burden on business.

Examples of undue

undue
The arrangement of the text is thorough, including tremendous detail without undue duplication.
At first, the corporation sought a disposal option that appeared environmentally acceptable while not imposing undue costs on the company.
The present article deals with two small interrelated areas in this field, which (for various reasons) have suffered undue neglect.
It gave undue emphasis to capital while tending to overlook the role of labour, particularly labour migrations.
The difference between the type annotations and the inferred type may go unnoticed by a library developer and thereby place undue burden on library users.
In the same vein, medical institutions should not be called upon to bear an undue share of the expense for disaster response.
This would be a way of ensuring that the magnitude of economic activity does not reach a level that places undue stress on key ecosystems.
First, if jury pay is too low, many jurors will face undue economic hardships.
Its doing so is a price we must sometimes pay, for example if undue harm is to be prevented.
Such parental testing would place an undue burden on the laboratory, resulting in unjustifiable expense and unnecessary anxiety on the parents and patients.
Care that is delivered efficiently and without undue burden, such as lengthy trips to remote facilities, is also in their interest.
In response to the charge of undue heterogeneity: the tactics discussed above are coercive in precisely the sense relevant for deliberative democracy.
The commanders' ability to act or react creatively, flexibly, and quickly to fast-changing circumstances on the ground was severely hampered by the administrator's undue interference.
Presently, undue procrastination on such theoretical developments puts evolutionary psychology in danger of being reduced to a rhetorical tool.
This, once again, places an undue and unequal burden on women.
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