disproportionate
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Disproportionate death sentences may be convincing to those who make clemency decisions, and they reek of unfairness.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
"The enormity of it. Disproportionate is a word being used and obviously we are going to feel aggrieved by that."
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023
“They should minimize the chance of unintended consequences or collateral damage. Disproportionate or overbroad sanctions risk fundamentally alienating populations.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2022
Disproportionate rewards go to the entrepreneurs and companies that can sell a vision of billions of users and values in the trillions of dollars.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021
Disproportionate attention to outward prosperity springs from the idea that the happiness of men and nations is inseparable from wealth.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Vocabulary lists containing disproportionate
Power Prefix: dis-
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President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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President Trump's First Address to the United Nations General Assembly (2017)
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