Definition of "misproportion" []

• To give the wrong proportions to. (verb)

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• "As she wrote to her father, "the worst kind of misproportion is that which leaves out all fun and jokes and laughing."
• "The Southern men see nothing but misproportion in what is enormous."
• "The plant forms are strange and various, making mosaic of contrasting range of leaf-size and leaf-shape, palm and grass and fern, epiphyte and liana and clumpy mistletoe, of grace and clumsiness and even misproportion, a tall thick landscape all mingled into a symmetry of disorder that charms the attention and fascinates the eye."