Sentence examples for a less excellent from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a less excellent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the quality of something that is not as good as another, typically in a comparative context.
Example: "While the first version of the report was impressive, the second draft was a less excellent attempt at conveying the same ideas."
Alternatives: "not as good" or "inferior quality".

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And his response to this objection is that "God's choice of a less excellent world could be accounted for in terms of His grace, which is considered a virtue rather than a defect of character in Judeo-Christian ethics" (Adams, 1972, 318-319).

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The debate over whether greatness is defined by an excellent shorter period (Sandy Koufax) or a less-excellent longer period (Warren Spahn) is endless.

It's not any less excellent care".

There is also an excellent Joseph Stella water color, a Moroni portrait, less excellent but older and bigger, and a rather startling Rosetti nude.

No less excellent, and yet more abundant, is "Brandenburgs," a 1988 work set to movements from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, again here featuring Mr. Trusnovec at its compelling center, with brilliant solo roles for Ms. Young, Eran Bugge, Laura Halzack and an extraordinarily vivid chorus of five men.

By taking over the Census Bureau, Mr Prewitt has walked into an area where the excellent principle of oversight has been taken to less excellent extremes.

Our talking became less excellent.

Citing the excellent things in "Umbrella" is easier than citing the less excellent.

It is largely apolitical, albeit with many excellent (and less excellent) exceptions, but equally it is traditionally music for outsiders, black sheep and the downtrodden.

Hanks has two films in the frame tonight: the excellent piracy drama Captain Phillips and the rather less excellent Disney biopic Saving Mr Banks.

Gallingly for the lit-crit imperialists (especially IA Richards), there is no means for distinguishing the excellent from the less excellent.

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