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disproportionate English

Meaning disproportionate meaning

What does disproportionate mean?

disproportionate

not proportionate out of proportion

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Simple sentences

There is a disproportionate number of girls in the class.

Movie subtitles

It's disproportionate!
Body-function readings are disproportionate.
In addition, we saw a disproportionate rise in central as opposed to peripheral breakdowns.
That's quite disproportionate, I'm afraid.
And the head's a little disproportionate, don't you think?
Disproportionate consumption of toilet tissue, used while pleasuring yourself to wicked extremes.
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, sometimes the giveth seems a little disproportionate to the taketh, there seems to be a lot more takething going on, but there it is.
And the slightly disproportionate size of Jaguaro's head to his body.
The bone structure is disproportionate.
Their influence is disproportionate.
Like the nose, they, too, are disproportionate to the head.
Disproportionate number of false positives.
Punished we were, the lot of us, disproportionate to our crime!
The Spanish flu killed a disproportionate number of healthy adults.
Some body function readings are disproportionate.
It's Disproportionate. It's Not Necessary.
There are a disproportionate number of older men with younger women here.
Factory farming uses a disproportionate amount of resources.
A disproportionate amount.
Erratic behavior may be caused by a disproportionate species identification.
I need to come up with something that's funny, smart and delicately suggests that my sexual endowment is disproportionate to my physical stature.
But your response was disproportionate. Your brandished a firearm.
Disproportionate numbers of nobel prize winners.
The company seems disproportionate.
The only way you can generate the proper attitude of awe and obedience. is by immense and disproportionate power.
I think what he's trying to get at. is that he considers your investment in Phil. which is in his mind sort of disproportionate. and maybe even secret.
I have been subject to a campaign by Lothian and Borders CID disproportionate to the evidence presented.
But your response was disproportionate.

News and current affairs

Though the US had disproportionate economic clout, its room for political and military maneuver was constrained by Soviet power.
Moreover, the true believers cite America's better-funded and hyper-competitive university system, which sucks in a disproportionate share of the world's top students and researchers.
Here, too, poverty plays a disproportionate role.
For the EU to succeed, it must pursue the policy launched by the French Presidency, giving priority to stopping the war and distancing itself from Israel's disproportionate use of force.
Despite a disproportionate response by Israel, Hezbollah was able to stand its ground, gaining the admiration of the Arab masses, whether Sunni or Shia.
A disproportionate share reflects the narrow group of people who speak English, travel abroad, and belong in the top income group - hardly an unbiased sample.
Resentment against the advanced economies, which account for a vastly disproportionate share of global pollution and commodity consumption, could boil over.
Instead, certain members now do a disproportionate amount of the fighting, funding, and dying.
The same disproportionate patterns of school assignment exist throughout much of Central and Eastern Europe.
Unfortunately, many countries have already signed bad contracts that give a disproportionate share of the resources' value to private foreign companies.
Dual labor markets and product-market monopolies still hobble growth, and oligarchs have disproportionate power to protect their interests.
But the exit polls and the data all show that Obama already has the support of a disproportionate share of American women.
The IMF's managing director has always been a European, and European countries enjoy a disproportionate share of the votes on the IMF's board.
A recession almost always implies a disproportionate fall in investment.
As to Georgia and Russia, the disproportionate size, weight, and power on one side are enough to deter any return to violence.
In response to Hamas rockets, Israel is now using disproportionate force, just as it did in Lebanon.
It is unfair to give ever more power to a Scottish parliament while continuing to give Labour, which controls 41 Scottish constituencies in the House of Commons, disproportionate say over what happens in England.
The asymmetrical war being waged there by Israel seems disproportionate to a majority of world opinion, not just Arabs and Muslims.
But their reaction was disproportionate - not least because the government's plans were not finalized.
But it merely fuels rent-seeking - the ability of particular groups in society to extract disproportionate rewards for their work.
It is often half-jokingly pointed out that the number of generals and admirals in some European countries (none mentioned, none forgotten) is glaringly disproportionate to the number of fighting troops.
Third, as usual, Israel has accused of anti-Semitism those who have dared to criticize its disproportionate response to Hamas's indefensible rocket attacks and its collective punishment of Palestinians.
But if finance continues to take a disproportionate number of the best and the brightest, there could be little British manufacturing left by 2050, and even fewer hi-tech firms than today.

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