In this condition it has a disproportionately large head, as dissimilar to that of a dog as the bud-like limbs are unlike his legs.
He is the unfortunate possessor of a stomach disproportionately large and which intrudes itself upon other people's notice like a prize pumpkin at an agricultural fair.
I shall be glad to take the Snowflake and to let you be disproportionately generous to me.
Mr Grice, who had been a little sleepy, grew suddenly alert again and almost disproportionately enthusiastic.
A nondescript trap with four high wheels and disproportionately large lamps stood near.
In a society of two sexes, wherein one has dictated all the terms of life, and the other has been confined to an extremely limited fraction of human living, we may look to see this great field of enjoyment as disproportionately divided.
The ridge of his back sloped down to hind-quarters disproportionately small, finished off with a little, meagrely tufted tail that on any beast less regal in mien and stature would have looked ridiculous.
The career and personality of Napoleon I bulksdisproportionately in the nineteenth century histories.
But though the common standard of living has risen, the rise has been on a scale disproportionately small.
The Mediterranean and the Baltic aredisproportionately large, and the mass of land between them has been contracted.
And it had to be avoided, they believed, lest it create a disproportionately large pool of black career soldiers with low aptitudes that would weaken the Army.
At the same time it complained of the disproportionately high percentage of black troops violating military and civil law.
Specifically, the group was not convinced by official reasons for the disproportionately small number of Negroes in some services, especially among the noncommissioned officers and in the officer corps.
It does not agree with the tentative conclusion of Stenlund (1955) that wolves in the Superior National Forest do not preydisproportionately on old deer.
Wolves may also be taking a disproportionately high number of fawns, although our data do not show this.
Neither has it a peasantry nor an aristocracy, and until well on in the Victorian epoch it had no disproportionately rich people.
In its teeth, Diprotodon shows itself to be closely allied to the living, grass-eating Kangaroos; but the hind-limbs were not so disproportionately long.
That this dryness of the hills is partly due to elevation, appears from the disproportionately moister state of the atmosphere below the Dunwah pass.
From his broad shoulders hung a pair of quite disproportionately long arms, with great brown hairy hands, which evidently had not lost their strength of grasp.
In answering this question, the general principle must be kept in mind, that a Consumer is not bound to act under a disproportionately grave inconvenience.
According to the latest statistical returns, it appeared that five-sixths of the revenue of Prussia came from indirect taxation, and indirect taxes were always taken disproportionately out of the pockets of the working class.
A young man stood outside in the narrow passage at the head of the stairs, a big young man--disproportionately big he appeared to Jill, but that was only because his surroundings were disproportionately cramped.
His beak isdisproportionately large and heavy, like a huge nose, which slightly mars his good looks; but Nature has made it up to him in a blush rose upon his breast, and the most delicate of pink linings to the under side of his wings.
His tail seems disproportionately long, like that of the red thrush, and his flight among the trees is very still, contrasting strongly with the honest clatter of the robin or pigeon.
Some one above shut a window with a clatter that echoed disproportionately loud.
The abdomen is disproportionately distended; swollen, apparently, by the reserve of organisable humours which the expansion of the wings and wing-covers will presently employ.
One person will be furnished with very large feet and very small hands, with a head disproportionately large for the body, or one as remarkably small.
Among the coast Eskimos, as a rule, the legs are short and poorly developed, while the body is long withdisproportionately developed dorsal and lumbar muscles, due to so much of their life being passed in the kaiak.
Simpson mentions that their thumbs appeared to be disproportionately short.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disproportionately" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fault; overly; unduly; unevenly
