What's the difference between disproportionate and disproportionately?
Disproportionate
Definition:
(a.) Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(2) Several studies have found that pollution and climate change disproportionately affect the poor , which means boosting clean energy generation and cutting pollution could also simultaneously reduce global inequality .
(3) Cardiologists were disproportionately represented among the high-cost users.
(4) Chlorine dioxide disproportionation products, chlorite and chlorate, were not active disinfectants.
(5) It’s been widely reported that black people are disproportionately harmed by the mortgage market.
(6) The infection probably affected all sex and age classes, but field surveys of live animals and mortality suggested that mature rams died disproportionately.
(7) This review indicates that abused women use a disproportionate amount of health care services including emergency rooms visits, primary care, and community mental health center visits.
(8) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
(9) The council offered him a tea urn | Frances Ryan Read more Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious “fit-for-work” tests were riven with flaws.
(10) In the goitres with low T3 of treated patients, T4 was also reduced but disproportionately to T3.
(11) It results from statistical disproportionation of the singly occupied complex in the gel.
(12) However, when compared to the normal growing pancreas, the level of proto-oncogene expression in the adenomas and carcinomas was disproportionate to the degree of cellular division in those tissues.
(13) The result is that, when natural selection favors increased enzyme activity so as to maximize flux, a point of diminishing returns will be attained in which any increase in flux results in a disproportionately small increase in fitness.
(14) One that sentimentality is obsessed by while funds are disproportionately siphoned away from the other 20,933 species facing extinction .
(15) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(16) T8 cells were disproportionately decreased, with a significant resultant increase in the T4:T8 ratios.
(17) In acid and alkaline solution the radicals rapidly disappear by disproportionation, but within the approximate pH range 6 to 11 they appear to be relatively stable for at least 10-20 ms, existing in transient equilibrium with parent adriamycin and the full reduced form.
(18) Oxidation of two tryptophans also leads to a disproportionately large decrease in fluorescence intensity.
(19) Excessively optimistic judgements of driving competency and accident risk have often been implicated in the disproportionate involvement of young males in traffic crashes.
(20) To date, a disproportionate amount of effort may have been spent on deciphering putative intracellular regulatory mechanisms, without knowing some essential fundamental properties of the Na+-Pi-COT.