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
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
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
The disproportions hurt the eye, and convey a disagreeable sentiment to the spectators, the source of blame and disapprobation.
From An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bonaparte was the great mark of their sarcasms, and, from some cause or other, seemed to enjoy a most disproportioned share of their dislike and derision.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
The noise seemed so disproportioned to the size of the objects occasioning 271 it, that this acoustic effect was at first rather startling.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites
His hands and feet were equally disproportioned to his frame, and his arms were so long that he could touch his ankles while standing upright.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
It would seem as if nature intended Ireland for a continent, and not for an island, by giving it lakes so entirely disproportioned to its size.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by T. O. Russell
Vocabulary lists containing disproportion
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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