Used in a Sentence

disproportionately

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for disproportionately.

Editorial note

Some companies actually are able to disproportionately hire many of the women available to be hired in the industry.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

in a disproportionate manner

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of disproportionately gathered in one view.

adverb

in a disproportionate manner

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for disproportionately.

adverb

in a disproportionate manner

Example sentences

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Some companies actually are able to disproportionately hire many of the women available to be hired in the industry.

2

Still seems high, but would make more sense if feral cats are disproportionately doing the killing (e.g.

3

By removing all ad impressions from that segment of the audience, you disproportionately decrease ad revenue.

4

Instead it should be reformed to benefit the majority more fairly rather than disproportionately benefitting those who are already wealthy.

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One reason to prefer the Medallion system is that both of the latter two options end up disproportionately impacting low-income people.

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Subtle bugs can result in disproportionately bad behavior (wrong cache key could accidentally show one user's private data to another user).

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The article discusses lopsidedness of online dating and how it disproportionately favors women.

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And one party has a disproportionately vested interest in maintaining that hostility.

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I suspect Bombadil is disproportionately popular among the people who like to critique what they read compared to the general public.

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Cheating is bad, yes, but let's not make it disproportionately so.

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The antisemite usually thinks that the world disproportionately favors Jews.

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So some of those middle-ages minded people you mentioned might actually be more concerned about the long term impact of disproportionately servicing the historically vulnerable with birth control.

Quote examples

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If racial features disproportionately correlate with crime (as they do in the US), then an algorithm which learns race is actually doing exactly what it is designed to do!" So for the author, anything that affects one ethnic group differently is racist, whether or not it is born by the data.

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> suggesting that the real relative impact of a magnitude 6 > quake compared to a magnitude 1 quake is disproportionately > greater than their size because one magnitude six quake > does more damage than six magnitude one quakes I'm pretty sure that Taleb never suggests this, and that the "6 times the damage" concept is simply a strawman constructed for the critique.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use disproportionately in a sentence?

Some companies actually are able to disproportionately hire many of the women available to be hired in the industry.

What does disproportionately mean?

in a disproportionate manner

What part of speech is disproportionately?

disproportionately is commonly used as adverb.