The phrase "a less eccentric" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the level of eccentricity of one thing or person to another, indicating that it is not as eccentric.
Example: "After years of living in the city, I find myself seeking a less eccentric lifestyle in the countryside."
Alternatives: "a more conventional" or "a more typical".
And it would – as well as with other seafood – but pizza might be a less eccentric pairing.
Thus, Dorothea is presented mainly as an anxious mother (although, like many such parents, she seeks to wrap her nerves in nonchalance) and as an undespotic landlady, who, like a less eccentric version of Mrs. Madrigal, in Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City," rents out rooms in her large, rickety, and frankly crumbling house.
Upon first meeting, the virtuoso violinist and nonprofit leader Jourdan Urbach seems like a less eccentric, real-world version of Max Fischer in "Rushmore".
Upon first meeting, the virtuoso violinist and nonprofit leader Jourdan Urbach seems like a less eccentric, real-world version of Max Fischer in "Rushmore". Both have an absurdly long list of decorations, awards and leadership positions -- the fictional Fischer was editor of the yearbook, president of the French Club and director of the beekeepers' society.
But not long before his arrest, Mr. Shahzad was also equipped with a less-eccentric — and yet more dependably lethal — weapon.
Do you think you've become any less eccentric over the years?
Comparing his new coach with Harbaugh, Luck said Shaw would be a "little less eccentric and maybe a little less polarizing than the guy we had before".
On his weeks, the baths "became a little less eccentric," said Jen Emma Hertel, one of Mr. Shapiro's front-desk clerks, as they began to fill with young Brooklyn types and thrifty tourists.
Another example: since 2008, the father and son-founded, budding dominion of Austenasia, composed of a handful of terrace houses not far from Croydon Ikea, has been making its own bid for freedom, if so far only obtaining recognition from a no less eccentric micronation in Manitoba.
Although it's a tad less eccentric than some of Digipedi's previous work, this video still manages to offer up a simple fantasy world filled with space soul, R&B jams, and lots of snacks.
