The phrase "a lesser category" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing classifications or hierarchies where one category is considered to be of lower importance or rank than another.
Example: "In the taxonomy of living organisms, reptiles are often viewed as a lesser category compared to mammals."
Alternatives: "a subordinate category" or "a minor category".
Instead of simply granting gay people the right to marry, the Legislature joined Vermont and Connecticut in creating a lesser category, civil unions.
"Classed as a lesser category of artistic expression, such objects have been designated 'applied arts' or 'decorative arts' as distinct from 'fine arts,' " she continues.
Mr. Downer added that Mr. Chen's request to remain under a protection visa, which is a lesser category than asylum, would be processed in the normal manner.
Some principals argue that, because of the checklist's limitations, they may end up marking an entry as "strength" when it really belongs in a lesser category.
On the witness stand, the plaintiffs described the pain and stigma of having their relationships relegated by the state to a lesser category that fails to convey the love and commitment inherent in marriage.
Imagine being a LGBTQ child in Taiwan and seeing an ad like that pop up while you are watching your favorite channels, at a time when adults are about to vote on the basic rights of LGBTQ people, and you are already confronted every day by banners and flyers that declare you are in a lesser category of human.
In Gujarat, there is often a sense that meat eaters are an entirely distinct, and often lesser, category of people.
Prosecutors also more frequently downgrade Class A misdemeanor charges to Class B because in the lesser category, charges are always decided by a judge, rather than possibly by a jury, which takes longer.
The problem with this reconstruction of Descartes' reasoning, however, is that Descartes explicitly deems motion to be a "mode" of extension; where a mode is a lesser ontological category that, roughly, can be understood as a way that extension manifests itself, or as a "property" of extension (Pr I 53; shape is also mentioned as a mode of extension).
More importantly, they keep adopted citizens in a lesser, unequal category, treating them adoptees say, as "second-class citizens" all on the pretext of birth parents having been promised anonymity.
Cocaine and methamphetamine fall into the lesser category, Schedule II.
