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Found 3 hits - Term: undue, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
undue \undue"\, a.
   1. not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
      1913 webster

   2. not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue
      proceeding. --bacon.
      1913 webster

   3. not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty;
      disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an
      undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution
      of law.
      1913 webster

   undue influence law, any improper or wrongful constraint,
      machination, or urgency of persuasion, by which one's will
      is overcome and he is induced to do or forbear an act
      which he would not do, or would do, if left to act freely.
      --abbott.
      1913 webster
see also:
undue influence 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
undue
     adj 1: not yet payable; "an undue loan" syn: not due ant: due
     2: not appropriate or proper or even legal in the
        circumstances; "undue influence"; "i didn't want to show
        undue excitement"; "accused of using undue force" ant: due
     3: lacking justification or authorization; "unreasonable
        searches and seizures"; "desire for undue private profit";
        "unwarranted limitations of personal freedom" syn: unjustified,
         unwarranted
     4: beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of
        inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue
        elegance"; "unreasonable demands" syn: excessive, inordinate,
         unreasonable
see also:
not due due unjustified unwarranted excessive inordinate 
unreasonable 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
122 moby thesaurus words for "undue":
   a bit much, abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious,
   boundless, criminal, cutthroat, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful,
   dizzy, egregious, enormous, evil, exacting, exaggerated, excessive,
   exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy,
   gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grossly overpriced,
   hardly the thing, high, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, ignominious,
   ill-timed, illegal, immoderate, improper, inappropriate, inapt,
   incontinent, incorrect, indecorous, inept, inequitable, infamous,
   inflationary, iniquitous, inordinate, intemperate, monstrous,
   nonmeritorious, not coming, not done, not outstanding,
   not the thing, off-base, off-color, out of bounds, out of sight,
   out-of-line, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat,
   overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overweening,
   preposterous, prohibitive, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful,
   shameless, sinful, skyrocketing, spiraling, steep, stiff, terrible,
   too much, towering, unapt, unbalanced, unbridled, unconscionable,
   undeserved, undeserving, unearned, unentitled, unequal,
   unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unjustifiable,
   unjustified, unlawful, unmeasurable, unmeet, unmerited, unmeriting,
   unowed, unowing, unreasonable, unrestrained, unrighteous,
   unrightful, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, untimely,
   unwarrantable, unwarranted, unworthy, usurious, wicked, wrong,
   wrongful





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