Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disproportionally; without regard to just proportion.
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- adverb in a
disproportionable manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Small businesses were then considered and the view was that RoHS "could disproportionably" affect them "as they may not have the financial resources to undertake R&D projects to develop substitutes".
The ultimate in fatuity? Richard 2006
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And there is also evidence that this happens disproportionably to technologies and devices which could “coincidentally” also threaten the hegemony of oil or coal.
Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement (Part 4) 2008
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But what happens when deaths are concentrated disproportionably within certain groups?
Counting Hell: The Death Toll of the Khmer Rouge Regime in Cambodia 2008
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One of them was as ugly as a chimp, another had disproportionably big head which reminded me of the freaks of nature I saw in London.
Satire Must Hurt 2008
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For these two ends of us all, either as rewards or punishments, are mercifully ordained and disproportionably disposed unto our actions; the one being so far beyond our deserts, the other so infinitely below our demerits.
Religio Medici 2007
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The implication from the Greens leader is they've been disproportionably hurt by the spoiled papers.
Morning Live Blog 2007
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The implication from the Greens leader is they've been disproportionably hurt by the spoiled papers.
Morning Live Blog 2007
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At this moment I imagine the face of a liberal reader, the Rangelite who would argue that the US armed forces disproportionably use the poor people to fight the wars of the rich and that fairness requires all the nation to have a stake in the war.
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To cavalierly dismiss Rangel's concerns is to ignore that the American Constitution is being trampled, to ignore the fact that our military is disproportionably comprised of the less privileged, and to ignore the reality that the American Empire is doomed to fall into the abyss.
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And yet they do benefit disproportionably from the system that taxes pay for.
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