The phrase "a less constructive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the level of constructiveness of two or more things, indicating that one is not as constructive as another.
Example: "While the feedback was helpful, it was a less constructive approach than I had hoped for."
Alternatives: "a more negative" or "a less helpful".
"Wouldn't the government have to provide support for them in some other form – perhaps in a less constructive form when they have reduced hope for the future".
A less constructive response to such criticism has been to register an official complaint with Nato regarding the UK's decision to use anti-terror laws to seize Icelandic assets.
As décoritects -- high-end residential architects -- downsize to meet the needs of a less constructive economy, business for landscape architects (whose rule-of-thumb budget is 10 to 15percentt of the house's cost) is thriving.
But too hard a line could undermine Serbia's pro-European government, helping less constructive forces in the country and potentially de-stabilizing a troubled region.
While it's exciting to think about groups like UX running around surreptitiously doing good in the world, it's a short leap of imagination to envision mischief-makers and evildoers operating similarly to less constructive ends.
It was less constructive, more casual".
Again: less constructive, possibly closer to the truth.
Less constructive fires were stoked elsewhere: Taliban militants ambushed American-led coalition forces in Helmand Province, setting off a battle in which two dozen militants were killed.
Front-page stuff, and guaranteed to divert public attention from the "less constructive news items" - read "mayhem and carnage" - elsewhere in the region.
And the approach taken in the next stage of the negotiations could be less constructive than what has been seen so far.
But other women who shared their experiences of reporting street harassment with GuardianWitness revealed far less constructive responses from the authorities.
