The phrase "admit less" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of acknowledging or confessing to a smaller amount of something, often in a context of honesty or transparency.
Example: "In negotiations, it's often strategic to admit less than what you actually know to maintain an advantage."
Alternatives: "acknowledge less" or "confess less."
But if it is to survive, Ariel will have to swallow its pride and admit less tolerant and flexible folk.
I am, I admit, less versed in lesbian music, but I hardly suspect it is without equally passionate representation.
One problem is that many local high school students are not qualified to immediately enter elite institutions like Northwestern or Georgetown, highly competitive schools that typically admit less than one in five applicants in the United States.
In the nineteen-nineties, when the problem first became widespread, many dairies had recently modernized to meet European Union standards, replacing the traditional hand-and-bucket setup with state-of-the-art automatic-milking parlors, which admit less hay dust.
While I salute Holland's aims as a historian – surely nothing should be out of bounds as a field of historical inquiry – I am, I admit, less certain of this notion.
We may admit less than half of our partners to our partners, more than we ever had to our friends, only one to Jesus, 101 to Cthulhu, and none to our parents.
Columbia, Yale, and Stanford admitted less than eight per cent of their applicants.
To keep up the numbers, urban lodges have admitted less respectable folk.
It was a lovely building from 1780, though the outside impression of Georgian airiness and proportion was undermined by the fact that the rooms were smallish and the windows admitted less light than one might expect.
David Cameron is still facing opposition from other EU countries to "four or five areas" of his renegotiation demands, the Government has admitted, less than 24 hours before a summit of leaders in Brussels.
No sensory proof exists of the small strings (how could it?), but the math around them is apparently very beautiful and for that reason admits less doubt than it might if it looked nasty.
