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
The amount and the mode of analysis of minds and characters are too far disproportioned to the other elements to be accepted without regret, and, perhaps, some fear for the future.
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
Security is the first and only thing we demand of them, provided the structures are not painfully disproportioned.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
Nearly all the great historic characters are impossible monsters, disproportioned by flattery, or by calumny deformed.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
Caldecot church is an extensive and highly-ornamented Gothic structure, which may appear somewhat disproportioned to the scanty flock that it has to fold.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber
