disproportion
noun
lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc..
disproportioned
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past participleof disproportion.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof disproportion.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
disproportionnounlack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc..
Example Sentences
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Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were of a size altogether disproportioned to his capacity.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
Each one carries a short thick mast that looks as if it had been broken off, and a little narrow sail, absurdly disproportioned to the vessel.
From Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 by Various
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
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 David Ricardo
