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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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

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

Now, I say, who that considereth these disproportions, can conclude that the house of the forest of Lebanon was none other than that called the temple of Jerusalem.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When I see it wedged in the middle of my name I am conscious of an annoyance altogether disproportioned to the fact.

From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

The principal entrance was protected by a portcullis and drawbridge, and by an immense barbican, greatly disproportioned to the size of the castle, on the opposite site of the moat. 

From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch

The depth of this affection, moreover, was not disproportioned, as is sometimes the case in examples of conjugal devotion, to the worthiness of the object.

From William the Third by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)

By taxing wages, the reward paid to the labourer would also be disproportioned to the state of that fund, by being too low.

From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by Ricardo, David