proportioned

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He’s a ridiculously proportioned savant who dribbles like a point guard, blocks shots like a center and puts up stat lines matched only by Hall-of-Famers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

And then there are the paintings and canvases, too small and oddly proportioned compared to the wall.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2025

A classically proportioned drama about the building of the American West, mostly seen from the eyes of one logger, that approaches the quiet grandeur of a Terrence Malick movie?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

Rick Owens mixed gothic elements with a touch of the bizarre, featuring oversized rubber boots that Owens himself described as outlandishly proportioned.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2024

On one level this was natural and something to which Ned had become accustomed, for both women were great beauties, Gertie slim and dark, Julia tall and felicitously proportioned.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson