Sentence examples for a kind of less from inspiring English sources

Jean Louise then discovers that her father, Atticus, her hero and as close to a perfectly honorable man as she can imagine — "Integrity, humor, and patience were the three words for Atticus Finch" — has joined one of the marginally respectable Citizens' Councils, a kind of less covert version of the Klan.

Apart from me, all the players were very German, bar a Greco-German "animator" (a kind of less ambitious Redcoat) and one player who kept dropping the ball, an ineffectual display which led me to suspect he wasn't German at all, but possibly Scandinavian.

When Nicole began dating Liam, Caroline Fitton writing for the Daily Mail said "I think this reforming wild child – a kind of less moody Peaches Geldof – has struck lucky".

Currently, radiosurgery was a kind of less invasive treatment for AVMs.

However, a few species, especially wild green vegetables, have been employed in times of temporary food shortage (mainly winter time), as a kind of less-favored food, eaten on an infrequent basis.

My guilt comes from not having read this modern classic — a kind of darker, less glamorous "Mad Men" — until now.

It's a kind of pasta-less dumpling of sheep's-milk ricotta fried golden brown in crispy sage and butter.

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a kind of infrastructure-less wireless network that is self-organized by mobile nodes communicating with each other freely and dynamically.

Is the actor hashing out an alternative view of performance, a kind of road-less-traveled of his own career?

The gray substance in some of the inner pleat folds is a kind of insignificant mildew, less toxic than what is found on some foreign cheeses.

Snapchat's creators have always positioned the app as a kind of anti-Facebook younger, less formanti-Facebook youngers keeping in touch than about mass communication.