r-less

Definitions

Examples

• Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.

• Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.

• For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.

• No one wants to align with less freedom at a time like this.

• The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.

• 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.