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Meanings of disproportional in English

Portuguese
desproporcionado
Catalan
desproporcionat

Out of proportion.

desproporcionado
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Examples for "disproportionate"
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All around Europe the care home sector has suffered disproportionate Covid-19 deaths.
The Guardian
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A disproportionate result was that the Protestant minority would subsequently rule Ireland.
The Irish Times
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African American basketball players carry the disproportionate burden of this exploitative system.
Ebony
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This suggests a disproportionate number of incidents on wards involved older people.
BBC
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Fortis' Gijsels said cost-cutting was playing a disproportionate role in company earnings.
Reuters
Usage of disproportional in English
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Upper income earners are pocketing a disproportional amount of the economy's gains.
Wired
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Anemia was severe and disproportional to the degree of decreased kidney function.
Pubmed
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The buildings are disproportional and the materials they are built with cheap.
The Guardian
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Rights groups say the police response has been disproportional, with some detainees tortured.
Reuters
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Māori children were represented in numbers disproportional to the regional population.
Pubmed
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And ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportional to the capacity.
The American Union Speaker
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The Droop quota, therefore, gives, not proportional, but disproportional representation.
Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government / A New ...
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To assign disproportional importance to a single goal isn't a balanced way to live life.
Wired
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They made me the poster boy for disproportional response.
The Butcher of Anderson Station
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The NGOs criticised all parties in the Somali conflict for indiscriminate and disproportional use of force.
Reuters
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Some manage to evade host antiviral defences, whereas others elicit an aberrant or disproportional immune response.
Pubmed
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Even the amount of women resigning isn't disproportional to the gender makeup of the House of Commons.
The Irish Times
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The farmer meekly intimated that ten acres of buckwheat and five acres of oats seemed rather disproportional.
Watch Yourself Go By
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But it metes out rewards and punishments grossly disproportional to the deeds people commit in their lifetimes.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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Choledochal cysts are rare congenital anomalies which are principally diagnosed by disproportional dilatation of the extrahepatic bile ducts.
Pubmed
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Of course, the amount of money I raised in a typical day was vastly disproportional to what I took home.
The Guardian
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