disproportionallyadv.
In a manner or to an extent that is out of proportion.
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1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.
1839 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 7. 201 The eyes of the embryo, at this period disproportionally large.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. x. 323 Disproportionally heavy taxes are the great cause of smuggling.
1880 Nature 1 Jan. 213/2 The satellites [of Mars]..are..so disproportionally minute, according to our limited ideas of proportion.
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