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Discover LudwigThe phrase "less confident than" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to make a comparison between two levels of confidence. Example: Sarah was less confident than her sister in public speaking, so she avoided giving presentations in class.
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The young new president projected a voice of generational confidence to a public that by one measure is less confident than at any other time since Mr. Obama was in grade school.
I was less confident than Andrew expected.
He's singing a song called "Honey," blearily, sounding less confident than those words suggest.
Mahut said Nadal seemed less confident than in years past, that he was taking fewer chances.
He claims to be less confident than we might think, though.
I was, therefore, less confident than her about the essentially benign nature of labyrinths.
"In some ways, the central bankers seem less confident than the markets are these days".
Combat soldiers have always been less confident than politicians that God is on the premises.
The Ryan selection also tells us that the Romney campaign had, over the last month, grown less confident than it was and less confident than it pretended to be.
The first question: A generation after the feminist revolution, are women still, on average, less confident than men?
Mr. Draghi predicted that the euro zone would recover, but he sounded slightly less confident than in the past.
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