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disproportionately

[ UK /dˌɪspɹəpˈɔːʃənətli/ ]
[ US /ˌdɪspɹəˈpɔɹʃənətɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. out of proportion
    this wall is disproportionately long
  2. to a disproportionate degree
    his benefits were disproportionately generous

How To Use disproportionately In A Sentence

  • The life of the architect is so fraught with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportionately welcome.
  • Japanese children with reading disabilities often have disproportionately more difficulty reading and writing kanji than kana.
  • In California, for example, a disproportionately high number of Hispanic teens are giving birth.
  • These developments are having marked negative impacts on women at work, for they are disproportionately represented in casual employment, with high rates of casualisation in feminised industries.
  • Here on Boing Boing, you'll see that terms like "bukkake" and "anal" rank disproportionately high in our stat logs, relative to the number of times we actually use them in our posts (bats eyelashes innocently). Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
  • They are disproportionately poor, undereducated, unemployed and more likely to end their own lives.
  • Instead they make the case that the only way to stop the disproportionately high Black on Black gun violence and homicide rate is to 'declaw' Black males like you and I, removing this threatening tool from our possession. Booker Rising
  • They sense the little people are disproportionately copping it again.
  • Sonia is a freak, and a picture of Sonia whose face bears the manifestations of the congenital syndrome that afflicts her oblique palpebral fissures, I have learned they are called, epicanthal folds, and a mouth that is disproportionately small will serve as a constant reminder to Dad that he created for the second time in his life a child with physical and mental imperfections. A Traitor to Memory
  • Large and medium companies in the genres of ballet and modern dance are disproportionately well represented by this data.
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