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- adjective Having
incorrect ordistorted proportions . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misproportion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The loss of materials still amounts to less than tying lessons, and seeing a razor cut through a misproportioned parachute adams you spent 30 minutes on gives you a strong incentive to not mess up again.
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The loss of materials still amounts to less than tying lessons, and seeing a razor cut through a misproportioned parachute adams you spent 30 minutes on gives you a strong incentive to not mess up again.
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It's on the ground floor of a peacoat-blue stucco building designed in the 1920s to resemble a misproportioned Barcelona hacienda.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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One eye, a scar upon his cheek, a tawny skin, a form grotesquely misproportioned, brawny as Hercules, and habited in livery, composed, as it were, the parts of one view.
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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If they didn't tell you, nobody would know what it represents except somebody who was grossly misproportioned.
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And, though she is misproportioned at last she is not lude like Bratz dolls! now Matell ... that's another story (didn't they try and crush American Girl dolls and now they have acquired them. .another version of distruction.)
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The misproportioned Franken photo rounds out the look.
HongPong.com - Dan Feidt's log on information operations, spinstorms and latent contradictions HongPong 2009
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And, though she is misproportioned at last she is not lude like Bratz dolls! now Matell ... that's another story (didn't they try and crush American Girl dolls and now they have acquired them. .another version of distruction.)
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You have all visited the scene of it, and must all have been struck by the three salient points, if I may so speak, by which that noble gallery lays strongest hold of the memory, and most powerfully impresses the imagination, -- by its gigantic plants of the first period (imperfectly as these are represented in the collection), by its strange misproportioned sea monsters and creeping things of the second, and by its huge mammals of the third.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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