disproportion

Example Sentences

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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

"There was a kind of disproportion," said Laure Khalil, the lawyer representing more than 100 of them.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2022

That doesn’t mean selling exceptional museum art to rectify the disproportion makes sense.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2022

For Alemani, the exhibition’s disproportion has a much more precise aim: reconstituting the past to let us see the present with keener eyes.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 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