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- adjective
Badly proportioned ;disproportionate .
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Examples
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I, frankly, don't think any of the jackets are all that great -- paired with the long dresses, they look kind of disproportioned, and not in a good way.
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Almost a century earlier, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits “greatly disproportioned” sentences and stated that “it is a precept of justice that punishment for crime should be graduated and proportioned to the offense.”
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Anybody else impressed that these posters aren't just some mangled publicity shots of the actor's faces photoshopped onto random disproportioned bodies?
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Across the street is the Parral Cathedral, squashed into a narrow space and correspondingly disproportioned.
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Across the street is the Parral Cathedral, squashed into a narrow space and correspondingly disproportioned.
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Across the street is the Parral Cathedral, squashed into a narrow space and correspondingly disproportioned.
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Or if you are disproportioned a size 4 upper body and size 10 lower body, liposuction might match the parts better.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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Or if you are disproportioned a size 4 upper body and size 10 lower body, liposuction might match the parts better.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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Or if you are disproportioned a size 4 upper body and size 10 lower body, liposuction might match the parts better.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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We can devote disproportioned amounts of time to our work and excuse it away as our life erodes from the inside out.
Common Humanity From the Words of the Late Senator, Ted Kennedy 2009
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