What's the difference between duly and unduly?

Duly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They learned from a good example.” His replacement, Diego Costa, duly hauled the hosts level by scoring his 20th league goal of an impressive first campaign in English football from the penalty spot after John O’Shea tripped Cuadrado.
  • (2) The process responsible for generating this delay was switched on with a time constant of 8 ms at 4 degrees C, which fell to about 1 ms at 15 degrees C. Analysis of the inward tail currents at the end of a voltage-clamp pulse showed that there was a substantial external accumulation of potassium owing to the restriction of its diffusion out of the Schwann cell space, which, when duly allowed for, roughly doubled the calculated value of the potassium conductance.
  • (3) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
  • (4) Aiyenugba duly saved Ben Frej's effort as Enyimba prevailed 5-3 and retained their crown.
  • (5) The medico-legal importance of MMF and the principal possibility of their treatment (when duly diagnosed) is pointed out.
  • (6) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
  • (7) The wag added the line "these allegations are completely unsubstantiated and have no basis in reality," which was duly tweeted out by the account.
  • (8) Then he drills an ace down the line, and duly wins the game with a gentle drop shot over the net.
  • (9) 42 patients with duly terminated orthodontic treatment were re-examined at intervals of one year during a period of five years.
  • (10) The absence of a virilizing action is duly pointed out.
  • (11) The recommendations are duly translated into procedures that the staff of each agency must follow – a new recording form or assessment procedure, more meetings – Mashs (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs), the Laming report's safeguarding children boards, child protection plan meetings and so forth.
  • (12) They duly served their purpose in crippling trade unionism, above all during the 1984-85 miners' strike, the British bobby's unfinest hour.
  • (13) That was not necessarily a disaster for a team with West Ham’s skill set, however, so well stocked are they with long-range shooters, and both Pedro Obiang and Noble duly hit the woodwork from distance before half-time.
  • (14) Duly noted: headline potential should an error from the USA's Southampton-based goalkeeper decide this or any other match.
  • (15) "Attack, attack, attack," was the order from the Stretford End, and United duly obliged.
  • (16) I will get the overall standings worked out today, and post them below the line as soon as I can; all six-pickers will be duly acknowledged at the top of next week’s blog.
  • (17) A Kazakh spokesman duly declared his country "honoured and privileged to have such attention on the part of two prime ministers".
  • (18) In New Hampshire, as police informed an MSNBC television reporter, who duly passed on the news to his stunned anchorman, only carrying a concealed weapon is illegal.
  • (19) The moment had come for Defoe – initially very big on economy of effort – to use all that cleverly conserved energy to remind everyone of his enduring ability and, latching on to Johnson’s pass, the 33-year-old duly obliged.
  • (20) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.

Unduly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an undue manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results indicate that infants undergoing intensive care are unduly stressed.
  • (2) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
  • (3) Also, occasional instances of unduly elevated serum TSH titers were found.
  • (4) The patient's unduly rapid response to chemotherapy suggested that the procedure had effected a substantial reduction in the leukocyte mass.
  • (5) The results of the modified Elek test were not unduly influenced by the different types of agar used.
  • (6) The Jefferson girls Do not have flat behinds, but theirs are cleanly shaped and not unduly full.
  • (7) In extensive-stage disease, A RDI correlated positively with CR+, PR but only in randomized trials, and this correlation lost statistical significance after unduly influential observations were eliminated.
  • (8) Predictions based on very early assessment are, therefore, often unduly pessimistic.
  • (9) Selegiline as an adjunctive agent to conventional levodopa therapy was not unduly impressive with regard to preventing progression of Parkinson's disease.
  • (10) From these data, and against specified epidemiologic criteria for significance, the possibility that particular helmets were associated unduly with cerebral and spinal neurotrauma was examined.
  • (11) The use of simulated data has shown that the recommended methods are not unduly sensitive to experimental error.
  • (12) On the other hand, when cow milk is fed together with beikost, infants receive unnecessarily high intakes of protein and electrolytes, resulting in an unduly high renal solute load.
  • (13) It doesn’t matter that all other developed nations have robust pro-labor politics: in America, that sort of thing is for college students or anyone unduly high.
  • (14) The preparation was not unduly sensitive to tubocurarine at 0 days and there was little evidence of T4:T1 fade.
  • (15) Many, however, were concerned about “dropping the ‘patient’ language in the statement, whenever that might occur, as risking a shift in market expectations for the beginning of policy firming toward an unduly narrow range of dates.
  • (16) These data suggest that intestinal colonization may have been an important reservoir for this outbreak, and the findings may explain the unduly prolonged course of intrahospital spread as well as the difficulty encountered in the eradication and control of the outbreak.
  • (17) Later, when we are driving back towards Castle Stuart golf club, host to the Scottish Open championship, Salmond seems unduly relieved that his speech seems to have gone well and seeks reassurance.
  • (18) He had had a paranoid walk to the hotel across Manchester with too much eye contact from passers-by that had unduly [un]nerved him.
  • (19) To this they add a presentation of their own cases treated by posterolateral arthrodesis, noting that this method is not unduly difficult to perform and gives good results in a high percentage of cases.
  • (20) Amnesics' difficulty in recollecting events (and partially learned facts) from before the onset of their disease (retrograde amnesia) is explicable in terms of interference between current events and prior events in similar contexts in patients who are unduly controlled by their current context.

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