Sundry
adjective
Various or diverse, not important enough to be mentioned individually.
She absorbed sundry pieces of information from the conference.
Often appears as...
- sundry items
- sundry expenses
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Formal
adjective
Various or diverse, not important enough to be mentioned individually.
She absorbed sundry pieces of information from the conference.
Often appears as...
- sundry items
- sundry expenses
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Contextual Variety
Used when items or subjects are too numerous or varied to list separately, suggesting a mix.
The market sells sundry local crafts.
Pro Tip 2/3Minor Details
Hints at details that are secondary and not crucial to the main discussion.
Apart from the main negotiations, sundry issues were discussed.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtly Insignificant
Implies items are not of great importance individually, but together they are noteworthy.
He dismissed the rumors as sundry speculations.
Pro Tip 1/3Contextual Variety
Used when items or subjects are too numerous or varied to list separately, suggesting a mix.
The market sells sundry local crafts.
Pro Tip 2/3Minor Details
Hints at details that are secondary and not crucial to the main discussion.
Apart from the main negotiations, sundry issues were discussed.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtly Insignificant
Implies items are not of great importance individually, but together they are noteworthy.
He dismissed the rumors as sundry speculations.
Pro Tip 1/3Contextual Variety
Used when items or subjects are too numerous or varied to list separately, suggesting a mix.
The market sells sundry local crafts.
Pro Tip 2/3Minor Details
Hints at details that are secondary and not crucial to the main discussion.
Apart from the main negotiations, sundry issues were discussed.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtly Insignificant
Implies items are not of great importance individually, but together they are noteworthy.
He dismissed the rumors as sundry speculations.
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Why Africa must become a...
where and what types it is, how it can be tapped and made available where and when needed to all and sundry. How does a continent that is home to some of the largest bodies of water in the world -- the Nile,
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Why Africa must become a...
where and what types it is, how it can be tapped and made available where and when needed to all and sundry. How does a continent that is home to some of the largest bodies of water in the world -- the Nile,
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Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian Designer
We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
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Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
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Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.
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Andrew Breitbart
American Businessman
The Democratic Media Complex, in its pursuit of Orwellian hate-crime legislation, reparations, and sundry non-ameliorative resolutions to America's troubled racial past, pursues its victims with blood lust.
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Vernon L. Smith
American Economist
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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Rodrigo Duterte
Filipino Statesman
To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.
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Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian Designer
We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
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Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
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Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.
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Andrew Breitbart
American Businessman
The Democratic Media Complex, in its pursuit of Orwellian hate-crime legislation, reparations, and sundry non-ameliorative resolutions to America's troubled racial past, pursues its victims with blood lust.
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Vernon L. Smith
American Economist
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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Rodrigo Duterte
Filipino Statesman
To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.
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