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

"There was a kind of disproportion," said Laure Khalil, the lawyer representing more than 100 of them.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2022

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

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

Fancy had envisaged an immense cook with a great red face, and a liver swollen to atrabiliar disproportions.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell

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

From Time Magazine Archive

By taxing wages, the reward paid to the labourer would also be disproportioned to the state of that fund, by being too low.

From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

Besides, where the punishment is so unjustly disproportioned to the offence, it is not very pleasant to be concerned in inflicting it.

From Discipline by Mary Brunton

They were of a size altogether disproportioned to his capacity.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

It is akin to rustling through the deep-lying autumn leaves, which affords a pleasure so absurdly disproportioned and inexplicable that it is almost mysterious.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle