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

Fisher’s note of late had come from his gargantuan contract and its mathematical disproportion to his meaningful wins.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2021

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