Less [adjective]

Definition of Less:

smaller, inferior

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Sentence/Example of Less:

In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.

He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

He did believe you, more or less, and what you said fell in with his own impressions—strange impressions that they were, poor man!

One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.

With childlike confidence he follows the advice of some more or less honest dealer.

I ne'er heard yet that any of these bolder vices wanted less impudence to gainsay what they did, than to perform it first.

And she fell to scolding him in the way he usually loved,—but at the moment found less stimulating for some reason.

Prima facie, the verdict here is less favorable than in the previous case.

European tobacco is lacking in flavor and is less powerful than the tobacco of America.

After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.