The phrase "are less distinctly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the clarity or definition of two or more subjects or concepts.
Example: "The colors in this painting are less distinctly defined than in the previous one."
Alternatives: "are not as clearly" or "are more vaguely".
The city's dividing line of wealth was not unrelated to the other dividing line, but it was less distinctly geographical and easier for me to cross.
It is rare for the English-language dominance of the musical-comedy genre to be breached by other countries, as France did with Irma la Douce (1956) or pre-Nazi Germany did with Die Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera, 1928) and Im weissen Rossl (1930; White Horse Inn); but in most European countries except Britain the line between musical and operetta (see below) is less distinctly marked.
The restrikes are said to be less distinctly struck than the originals.
In contrast, methyl-H3K9 seems to be less distinctly related to promoter methylation.
However, in cells of the lungs and liver, it was less distinctly localised to the plasma membrane, as previously observed with cells of the embryonic ICM.
However, the first radial is less distinctly sutured off than in some other "trachinoid" lineages ([ 31] p. 260), possibly indicating that it is beginning the process of being ontogenetically lost by incorporation into the scapula.
The spectral heterogeneity is also visible in the heatmap representation of the similarity coefficients, where the region corresponding to pairwise comparisons of the spectra from D. mau., outlined by the white square, is less distinctly defined and its colors closer to those of background values than corresponding square regions representing the clusters of other species.
The finding that the amino acid sequences of some of the paralogous amphioxus AANATs are less than 40% identical suggests distinctly different substrate preferences, stability and kinetic characteristics.
The line of demarcation between prose and poetry is much less distinctly drawn in Chinese literature than in other national literatures.
Women who never had a mammogram tended to be older than those in the other groups, had more children, were less likely to have had a maternal history of breast cancer, and most distinctly, were less likely to be current users of HT (12% versus 25% for those in the program and 32% for those with mammograms outside the program).
