much less
And certainly not, as in He rarely talks about his outside activities, much less his family. The earliest record of this idiom is in John Milton's Paradise Lost (1671): “The world thou hast not seen, much less her glory.”
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How to use much less in a sentence
Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.
But all these groups are reaching a point where vengeance takes priority over politics or, much less, public relations.
Pakistani School Killers Want to Strike the U.S. | Sami Yousafzai, Christopher Dickey | December 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.
When Broadway Musicals Were Dark And Subversive | Laurence Maslon | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe other person for whom a path to the nomination, let alone a candidacy, seems much less likely is Mitt Romney.
How A Jeb Bush Candidacy Would Hurt Chris Christie And Shake Up The 2016 GOP Field | David Freedlander | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet their biggest star, a master practitioner of the sport, could face prison time for much less onerous financial crimes.
He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodYou know MacRae, Lyn; it's mighty poor business for any man to tread on his toes, much less go walking rough-shod all over him.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairMartyrdoms do not occur for ethical generalizations, much less for philosophical affirmations.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayIt occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddI still think we might have done as well at much less cost by creeping up these 200 or 300 yards by night.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
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