Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not proportionate; disproportionate; unfit.
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- adjective Not
proportionate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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JAZZAR: It does not justify the Israeli attacks and this unproportionate, you know, and this collective punishment that we have had.
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What we have seen over the past few weeks is the hate crimes against the Muslims themselves has risen unproportionate level, 600 percentage.
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He did not like so much the unproportionate blows that Don Belianis gave and took in fight; for, as he imagined, were the surgeons never so cunning that cured them, yet was it impossible but that the patient his face and all his body must remain full of scars and tokens.
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Mr. O'Connor simply shook his head, and looked sadly upon his limbs, now shrouded in a superfluity of garments, somewhat resembling a slender thread of water in a shallow summer stream, nearly wasted away, and surrounded by an unproportionate extent of channel.
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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