"Undue" is a word in ENGLISH
Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue
proceeding.
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.
Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists …
Read the complete definitionMaking, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of …
Read the complete definitionContaining arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.
Read the complete definitionIn an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
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Read the complete definitionMaking undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance.
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Read the complete definitionIn a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
Read the complete definitionIn criminal law. The re-ceiving or offering any undue reward by or to any person whomsoever, whose ordinary profession or …
Read the complete definitionTo injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or …
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Read the complete definitionOf or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Read the complete definitionUndue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
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Read the complete definitionAn excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
Read the complete definitionOne who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
Read the complete definitionAn undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
Read the complete definitionMorbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
Read the complete definitionTo assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
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