adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
not unduly worried (= not very worried )
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Jerry did not sound unduly worried at the prospect of going to jail.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
lenient
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Special considerations: the Attorney General invited the Court to review the sentence on the ground that it was unduly lenient .
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The judge agreed that it was unduly lenient .
worried
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It's why you aren't unduly worried that she's away with Steve.
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She shouldn't be here because of Maria Luisa but she trusted Fernando enough not to be too unduly worried about it.
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No, I wasn't nervous, not unduly worried .
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I don't think the New Zealanders will be too unduly worried about the Lions.
■ VERB
influence
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This would help ensure that the design of one component would not unduly influence the design of another.
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Do not let your editor or art director unduly influence you.
seem
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Cashback: If the cashback seems unduly generous look closely at the penalties for early redemption.
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Encourage employees, particularly new ones, to question activities that seem unnecessary or procedures that seem unduly complicated.
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This outlook makes the prospect of high performance seem unduly remote, a far-off destination the organization can only hope to reach.
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Pamela seemed unduly nervous for the rest of the week, especially when the inspectors were in her classroom.
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They didn't seem unduly perturbed.
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I was wary of Clive Smith as he seemed unduly anxious for Mr. Winterbone to make a will.
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Biff didn't seem unduly bothered; he was chasing away his hangover with stinging gulps from his flask.
worry
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Hotels-to-racing group Ladbroke's dramatically reduced profits did not unduly worry the City which approved of its increased dividend payout.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Senator has been unduly influenced by a few wealthy contributors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Death will come by lethal injection, rather than cyanide gas, since gassing has been challenged in California as unduly cruel.
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I don't want to sound unduly negative, but I simply couldn't see what there was to mourn.
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It appears unduly insistent on the primacy of certain conceptual connections between cognition and language.
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Shareholder activists argue that such perks unduly enrich outside directors, encourage them to stay too long and endanger their independence.
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This outlook makes the prospect of high performance seem unduly remote, a far-off destination the organization can only hope to reach.