disproportion
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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 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
That doesn’t mean selling exceptional museum art to rectify the disproportion makes sense.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2022
For Alemani, the exhibition’s disproportion has a much more precise aim: reconstituting the past to let us see the present with keener eyes.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 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
Vocabulary lists containing disproportion
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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A Dance with Dragons
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