Sentence examples for somewhat less useful from inspiring English sources

This made the books no less interesting, but somewhat less useful.

Spelling ability is nice, if somewhat less useful than, say, the ability to make a mixed drink a Negroni, a Tom Collins.

Wright, like Hudgens, said certain elements — "the weather, the humidity, little things like that" — would make comparisons between the practice field and the major league park somewhat less useful.

His philosophical study The English Utilitarians (1900) was somewhat less successful, though it is still a useful source.

Although the hybrid conjugate containing both phospholipids and PEG was somewhat less potent, its water solubility renders it useful for systemic administration.

Leniency and stringency are however somewhat less emotional descriptors, and we will therefore use the terms leniency and stringency while discussing statistical results, but will also use hawk and dove on occasion when they are useful metaphors in discussion.

However, the shape of the GDS for the Pantelleria location is somewhat less distinctive and so, in this case at least, the haplotype connectivity approach provides some useful additional information.

Erick comes away impressed with Siri while John is somewhat less excited, saying the service is "almost a gimmick in one way, but it is also actually fairly useful".

At my public high school, we took it somewhat less seriously than shop and typing; in shop, at least I learned how to use a C-clamp, but despite the relative candor of our sex-ed curriculum, I can't remember anything useful, much less sexually inspiring, that came out of it.

But only somewhat less.

Others are somewhat less circumspect.