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Webster 1828 Edition


Disproportionately

DISPROPORTIONATELY

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adv.
In a disproportionate degree; unsuitably; inadequately.

Definition 2024


disproportionately

disproportionately

English

Adverb

disproportionately (comparative more disproportionately, superlative most disproportionately)

  1. in a disproportionate manner
    • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
      Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”

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