disproportionate
desproporcionado
definition
verb
water disproportionates to oxygen and hydrogen
undergo disproportionation.
adjective
people on lower incomes spend a disproportionate amount of their income on fuel
too large or too small in comparison with something else.
translation of 'disproportionate'
adjective
desproporcionado,
desmesurado
example
In a country which is invariably ruled by coalitions, a small number of seats can buy a 'disproportionate' amount of power.
Cops spend a 'disproportionate' amount of time in their cars, driving around on motor patrol.
For someone with what you might call a small social circle, I get invited to a 'disproportionate' amount of weddings.
They took up a 'disproportionate' amount of teachers' time and caused unreasonable stress.
These can take a 'disproportionate' amount of time and funding, to the detriment of local priorities.
Kate gets a 'disproportionate' amount of wreckage to build her shelter.
It turned out that a 'disproportionate' amount of the unclaimed luggage originated from the Indian sub-continent.
California bears a 'disproportionate' amount of the cost of illegal immigration.
The 'disproportionate' amount of privately educated applicants who continue to win places each year is a concern.
The Sheikh's willingness to spend 'disproportionate' amounts of money for certain objects has astonished the art world.
Very obese people tend not to exercise and are frequently poor, and they spend a 'disproportionate' amount of time dieting.
That can take up a 'disproportionate' amount of time and there is therefore less time spent on the business of teaching and learning.
We must all understand what takes up a 'disproportionate' amount of the available police resources we all call for.
Readings take up a 'disproportionate' amount of my time and, more importantly, emotional energy, I find.
This economic control gives capitalists a 'disproportionate' amount of power in all realms of society.
Of course in reality I know some very nice people with beards (as well as a 'disproportionate' amount of idiots).
Rivals complain that Murphy has 'disproportionate' amounts of cash with which to distort the market.
It's received a wholly 'disproportionate' amount of attention just because of his name.
Under Japan's political system, towns like Towa wield a 'disproportionate' amount of influence.
So I guess we've all spent a 'disproportionate' amount of time in the three second-hand shops.
They suffered grievously and 'disproportionately' during the conflict.
This entire process is developing in an atmosphere of deep socio-economic crisis in which international weight is often overpowering due to the 'disproportionateness' of available resources.
When bubbled through alkaline water, chlorine gas 'disproportionates' to form chloride ion and hypochlorite ion.
Those serving time in youth jails are 'disproportionately' African American and Latino.
Hence, the 'disproportionateness' of his reactions.
Another negative fact is the manifest 'disproportionateness' of the distribution of Hungarian students among the various fields of study.
They are people whose ardor for war grows 'disproportionately' to their distance from the fighting.
The latter 'disproportionates' to H 2 O 2 and O2.
The inconsistency and 'disproportionateness' which has been occasioned in our sentiments of benevolence, offers a curious moral phenomenon.
MDA 'disproportionates' to dehydroascorbate and AsA if it is not immediately reduced.
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