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

The Congressional Budget Office and National Academy of Sciences, to name two sources that painstakingly documented the disproportion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

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

In this past week’s election, this sense of disproportion helped bolster Balad, a small Arab party that won three times more votes in Lod than the other Arab-led parties combined.

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 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

If there be the most unpleasant disproportions in the turn of your limbs—any awkwardness or deformity in your figure, the enchantment of this mighty wizard instantly communicates symmetry and elegance.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829 by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His head, enormously disproportioned to the rest of his figure, presented a number of flat surfaces, as though nature had originally destined it for a crystal.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James

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 Miller, Florence Fenwick

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)

"Indeed, sir!" said Gleeson, with a mixture of surprise and agitation greatly disproportioned to the intelligence.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James