disproportional

[ UK /dˌɪspɹəpˈɔːʃənə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. out of proportion

How To Use disproportional In A Sentence

  • However, the hard part about crime data is that it is usually disproportionally impacted by certain "hotspot areas," as well as certain types of crime. Reflections on Living with Violence in Mexico
  • In the early summer of 1967, Banzhaf dashed off a letter to the Federal Communications Commission the agency responsible for enforcing the fairness doctrine complaining that a New York TV station was dedicating disproportional airtime to tobacco commercials with no opposing antitobacco commercials. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • It is disproportional to force ratepayers to pay additional rates for services for which they have previously paid.
  • Domestic economic imbalances and disproportionalities are relatively muted.
  • A disproportionally large gasholder combined with a larger digester would correspond to this peak demand. 2. Biogas technology
  • Our approach disclosed a disproportional impact on trophic cascades by numerically minor phototrophs that otherwise would have gone unnoticed.
  • Lecture [2] sets forth the view that the influence of war on the race, both directly and indirectly, is injurious; he admits that there may be beneficial as well as deteriorative influences, but the former merely affect the moral atmosphere, not the hereditary germ plasm; biologically, war means wastage and a reversal of rational selection, since it prunes off a disproportionally large number of those whom the race can least afford to lose. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
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