Is it less adroit than the others: is it less eager?

These qualities are not confined to the one speaker, for his opponent was no less adroit and ready.

But it would not do to take the old man to the war, and Glaucus is far less adroit.

One less adroit would have brought her to the point; but this artist only sighed, and let the arrow rankle.

He then set to work, and, with fingers far less adroit than hers, fastened another set of rushes round the hoop.

There the boy was less adroit, but Haldon was a patient teacher, and Tyrion was able to make himself of use as well.

But in the electoral politics that have emerged over the last two years as a result of those reforms he has been less adroit.