The phrase "a distinctly less" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare two things, indicating that one is significantly lower or reduced in some aspect than the other.
Example: "The new model offers a distinctly less powerful engine compared to its predecessor."
Alternatives: "significantly lower" or "markedly reduced".
Blue Smarties were dropped in 2005, only to return in 2008 as a distinctly less blue.
He was given a new position, albeit a distinctly less important one, as deputy secretary of the Security Council.
But some growth sectors will be of a distinctly less glamorous sort, such as caring for our growing older population.
And, if you got there, you would have received a distinctly less dreamy glimpse of the future.
As the performance spread, concentration, and churn increase, management becomes a distinctly less comfortable profession more unforgiving of mistakes, faster to weed out low performers.
Frank's parents, Sam and Elsie, raised their four children in a distinctly less rarefied setting than the ones in which they all eventually arrived.
Considering the profound lack of commercial and strategic partnerships in my life, I settled on MailTrack, which A) had a reassuringly bland, distinctly less bugged eyed stalker vibe than its competitors, and B) was free.
But on the broader issues of environment, energy and climate change, both as environment secretary and as a member of a government left distinctly less green after the reshuffle, the more he says, the more sceptical he appears.
When visualized as plots along the chromosomal pseudomolecules, the diploid A-genome chromosomes were distinctly less similar to A. hypogaea sequences than the B-genome chromosomes (Fig. 6, Supplementary Fig. 32a t and Supplementary Data Set 9). Figure 6: Example graphs comparing DNA sequences from cultivated peanut with chromosomal pseudomolecules of A. duranensis and A. ipaensis.
Johnny is the kind of druglord who buys coffins first, then issues death warrants afterwards, saying: "I want these filled by sundown!" Like everything else in Bay's worldview, he's a cartoon and distinctly less important than the shoot-outs, car smashs and action set-pieces that constitute the bulk of the movie.
But a complete meltdown seems distinctly less likely than gradual stabilisation followed by a tepid recovery, with soaring debt levels and lingering high unemployment.
