The phrase "disproportionate about" can be used in written English, but it is not a commonly used phrase.
It means that something is not in the correct or appropriate proportion or ratio. Example: The student's frustration seemed disproportionate about the small mistake on their exam, causing them to become excessively upset.
"There was something disproportionate about the guy," Mr. Awoudi said.
Andersen's complaint that there is something disproportionate about indicting an entire firm for the misdeeds of a few lacks merit.
There has always been something intuitively disproportionate about nuclear power plants, which, like coal-fired ones, use steam turbines to generate electricity.
There is something disproportionate about the vitriol that gets directed at him, and it is worth asking what deeper motivations might lie behind it, and what these reveal about our culture.
Yet, we try to reduce access to assault rifles, spend a disproportionate about of time on school safety (disproportionate, not ill spent) and focus on mental illness as a reason for a shooting.
Its chairman, Bevan Powell, added: "Institutional racism is not about labelling individuals racists but rather police practice and procedures that bring about disproportionate outcomes for black and minority ethnic communities and police personnel".
Minorities make up a disproportionate share: about one in every 15 African American men are incarcerated, alongside one in 36 Latino males.
The truth however, is near inevitably that there is only a very small minority making a disproportionate noise about their case.
I know a disproportionate amount about its author: that he smokes heavily (in the Kenneth Tynan mode, cigarette held between index and third finger), drinks prodigiously (bourbon) and lives misanthropically in Ireland.
The labour pains extend from white-bread reality celebs Cameron Diaz (right) and Matthew Morrison's disproportionate squabbling about infant circumcision, to an unpersuasively penniless J-Lo's struggles with adopting from Ethiopia.
The biggest damage, however, was done to the issue itself: it invited politicians of all colours to stage yet another disproportionate skirmish about the exact size of the budget, exacerbated by calls for scrapping existing rebates or granting new ones.
