disproportion

Example Sentences

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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 doesn’t mean selling exceptional museum art to rectify the disproportion makes sense.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2022

That this feeling of disproportion is fainter in the Broadway production than in 2018 may provide a clue to the answer.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

In government, every serious mistake is, at bottom, a matter of disproportion.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 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