"Of lesser ability than other potential candidates?"
"Did you think someone of lesser abilities could have done it?"
Men had been promoted over his head continuously, though of lesser ability - that much was admitted.
The gesture is by no means gratuitous (although actors of lesser ability might have trouble getting away with it).
Dakor is completely fireproof and has other lesser abilities.
With lesser ability to lend, they exacerbated the plight of their indebted customers.
His form passed through a spell that would have killed any mortal creature and several entities of lesser ability than he.
Sometimes you have to call on those when you have lesser physical ability.
They may even have learned that persons of lesser ability, so treated, never return.
The men knew what they could do under an extremely competent general; one of lesser ability and courage could well have lost the battle.