disparately
- adverb
- /dɪsˈpɛrɪtli/
:
de manera desigual
- The policy change affected communities disparately, leaving some without essential resources.
Examples
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Yet, poor pregnant women disparately encounter arbitrary criminal and civil interventions in their pregnancies that result in punishment, stereotyping, and stigma.
Academic text (2017) -
20. Public involvement plus planning tools can address public health concerns of disparately affected communities.
Academic text (2011) -
It went on to hold, however, that the registry legislation was intended to establish adoption procedures that promote the interests of children and that such legislation could treat unwed mothers and fathers disparately if the father had either abandoned the child or never established a relationship with her.
Academic text (2002) -
Different groups within the city are disparately impacted by the new environmental regulations.
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The study showed that women and men are often treated disparately in the workplace.
Synonyms
85
1.8
In a way that treats people or things differently and not right
46
7.1
By an amount that is too large or too small compared with what is normal
25
5.2
In an unfair way
4
4.3
In a way that is not fair or even
1
8.0
In a way that treats people unfairly
1
8.2
In a way that harms someone or gives them less chance of success
In an unfair way that treats people differently because of their race or gender
In an unfair way that treats some groups worse than others
Antonyms
How Unequal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Disparately comes from parts that mean 'not' and 'equal': dis- 'not' and par 'equal', the same idea behind the English word equal. That's why something done disparately often affects people or places 'unequally' or to different degrees.