disproportion

“It is not a great disproportion between ourselves and others which produces envy, but on the contrary, a proximity,” wrote David Hume, the 18th-century philosopher and economist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

The Congressional Budget Office and National Academy of Sciences, to name two sources that painstakingly documented the disproportion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

That disproportion slights the postwar failure of his push to make a Christian Sparta among citizens more devoted to making money and buying consumer goods.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

In this past week’s election, this sense of disproportion helped bolster Balad, a small Arab party that won three times more votes in Lod than the other Arab-led parties combined.

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2022

Tyrion Lannister had lived all his life in a world that was too big for him, but in the manse of Illyrio Mopatis the sense of disproportion assumed grotesque dimensions.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

In recent years, however, the disproportions have grown even more extreme.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2023

“However, these programs do not constitute a proper and comprehensive response. The industry needs to be compensated for the disproportions and restore some balance to the ecosystem.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

Paradoxically, because advertisers can no longer target by age or gender, they have little recourse to remedy these disproportions.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2019

It offers one of the most remarkable disproportions between the precise personalism of its action and the overwhelming scope of its achievement.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2015

And accordingly what, above all, exasperates the man of taste is the spectacle of vice, is its deformity, its disproportions.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beyond peasant cottages, and near them, Pan Serafin's outbuildings were visible stretching in a circle around the edge of a courtyard, in which stood the mansion, which was much disproportioned.

From On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Henryk Sienkiewicz

It is akin to rustling through the deep-lying autumn leaves, which affords a pleasure so absurdly disproportioned and inexplicable that it is almost mysterious.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

Nearly all the great historic characters are impossible monsters, disproportioned by flattery, or by calumny deformed.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

The size of the parents should not be much disproportioned at first, as nature abhors sudden extremes, and does every thing in the most gradual manner.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock