disproportioned

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adjective

Badly proportioned; disproportionate.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectivedisproportioned (comparative more disproportioned, superlative most disproportioned)

comparative more disproportioned · superlative most disproportioned

  1. Badly proportioned; disproportionate.

    […] and that no mortal man can be so innocent as to feel any infliction wholly unmerited and disproportioned […]

    1867, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The trial: more links of the daisy chain, pages 56–57
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    His Lordship might indeed seek to raise his vanity by allusions to the disproportioned marriage he was about forming; but, with no heart to bestow on any of the sex, his affections entombed, how could he come forward, and feel himself entitled to make proposals to any, under other circumstances than those which connected him with Miss Airey?

    1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 244

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