disproportion
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“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
But the disproportion that Sordi brings to the part is essential to Risi’s argument, which is precisely that Silvio doesn’t fit the scale of his times.
From New York 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
"There was a kind of disproportion," said Laure Khalil, the lawyer representing more than 100 of them.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2022
His loyalty extended without disproportion to things, the patient, obstinate, reliable things that we use and get used to, the things we live by.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing disproportion
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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