Though the title fit him, he was known to the village as the less lord, his counsel seldom heeded.

We need to aim for less in our spending this month.

I'll carry the bags, less you want to do it yourself.

When teaching morphology, I often show students how the suffix -less creates adjectives meaning without or lacking something.

The captain was lesse hopeful about rescue as the days stretched on.

The philosopher introduced the concept of lessness to describe the condition of being less in modern life.

Farmers collected the lesses to spread on the fields as fertilizer.

By lessing the sugar in the recipe, she discovered the cake tasted fresher and less cloying.

At the reunion, the Lessings reminisced about their childhood summers by the lake.

The historian discovered a collection of letters written by Lessing in the archive.