Synonym: disproportional. Similar words: disproportionately, proportionate, proportional, proportional tax, proportional representation, proportion, in proportion to, extortionate. Meaning: [‚dɪsprə'pɔrʃnət /'pɔː-] 
adj. 1. out of proportion 2. not proportionate.
adj. 1. out of proportion 2. not proportionate. 
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1. You spend a disproportionate amount of your time on sport.
2. There are a disproportionate number of girls in the class.
3. The punishment was grossly disproportionate to the crime.
4. The government devotes a disproportionate share of the budget to military expenditure.
5. The area contains a disproportionate number of young middle-class families.
6. We spend a disproportionate amount of our income on rent.
7. The country's great influence in the world is disproportionate to its relatively small size.
8. A disproportionate amount of time was devoted to one topic.
9. A disproportionate number of these patients were elderly.
10. Clough was small in stature with disproportionate physical strength and powers of endurance.
11. It never occurred to me how disproportionate was the punishment to the offence.
12. Television also received a disproportionate amount of public attention in the press and parliamentary debate.
13. Capitalists command disproportionate influence over state agencies and funding for public campaigns.
14. Long-term residents affected While seniors account for a disproportionate number of owner move-in evictions, other long-term residents are also affected.
15. The report shows that a disproportionate number of black women do unskilled, low-paid work.
16. For example it was highlighted that a disproportionate number of Black women remained in refuge accommodation for longer periods before they were rehoused.
17. Meanwhile the opinions of newspaper proprietors played a disproportionate role in determining politicians' views of what the public wanted.
18. Our fantasies about motherhood are as disproportionate as the disappointment and self-recrimination that inevitably ensue.
19. Some fields get disproportionate funds, he opined,(http://sentencedict.com/disproportionate.html) while others go hungry.
20. They suddenly found out that they had spend a disproportionate amount of their money on clothing.
21. New Hampshire, with a population of only 1. 1 million, has long had a disproportionate influence on presidential politics.
22. The government often overreacts to newly discovered dangers and pours disproportionate resources into hastily conceived remedies.
23. Children who disrupt lessons at school take up a disproportionate amount of the teacher's time.
24. The graduate assignments the following year were reportedly very disappointing, with a disproportionate number being sent to rural areas.
25. In both houses, the reformers claimed, committee chairmen exercised disproportionate power.
26. Yes ... high earners will get bigger fines ... but they may be disproportionate to the offence.
27. Yet what our little coterie suffered was, I believe, disproportionate to our vices.
28. But just as all doctors have patients who consume disproportionate amounts of time so we have papers that slow us down.
29. For years, the female tilt toward the Democrats was balanced by disproportionate white male support for Republicans.
30. It arose out of genuine social issues, not because there was a disproportionate number of prejudiced personalities living in the locality.
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