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Example sentences for "less serious"

  • The growth takes place in such a manner as to be productive of certain symptoms more or less serious, among which swelling is least obvious.

  • The retention of the catarrhal products is the frequent cause of permanent disturbances of a more or less serious nature.

  • The digestive apparatus of the tuberculous individual is more apt to be impaired, so that any undue exertion required to digest a meal is likely to bring about disturbances more or less serious in character.

  • The compensation of the organ may improve, but there is still a danger of a reoccurrence or a further development more or less serious, and at times fatal.

  • However, the irritation arising from excessive fermentation in the stomach may lead to gastric disturbances of a more or less serious nature; hence the amount of carbohydrate taken under certain conditions must be adjusted carefully.

  • If the left ventricle becomes sufficiently weakened or dilated, the same damming back of the blood through the lungs and right heart occurs, and more or less serious signs of broken compensation develop.

  • Patients with acute heart failure or acute loss of compensation, with more or less serious edemas, should rarely take the risk of traveling any distance to be treated at an institution.

  • Courts of honour, recognised and regulated by law, would obviate duels without having recourse to more or less serious punishments.

  • The two great poems of the Roman du Renart and the Roman de la Rose stand as representatives of the more or less serious poetry of the time, and everything else may be said to be included between them.

  • Ruteboeuf's principal debat has been named; another in a less serious spirit is that between Charlot et le Barbier.

  • He styles it a comedie heroique, and it is in fact a kind of anticipation of Racine's manner, but applied to less serious subjects.

  • The sins with which one cooperates by supplying food or drink to others who have no right to it are more or less serious according as they violate the natural law or only positive human law.

  • Example: A venial sin against faith is less serious than a mortal sin against justice.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considering everything; emigrant ship; give expression; great kindness; less amount; less certain; less completely; less conspicuous; less dangerous; less differentiated; less marked; less numerous; less perfect; less pubescent; less serious; less severe; less sterile; less then; less time; less true; less white; lesse then; rising from; spring from; various branches; who took