All 7 Uses of
indulgent
in
The House of Mirth
- It amused her to think that any one as rich as Mr. Percy Gryce should be shy; but she was gifted with treasures of indulgence for such idiosyncrasies, and besides, his timidity might serve her purpose better than too much assurance.†
Chpt 1.2
- "I daresay it is true," she reflected; and her imagination was fired by the thought that Mr. Gryce, who might have sounded the depths of the most complex self-indulgence, was perhaps actually taking his first journey alone with a pretty woman.†
Chpt 1.2
- She had taken the girl simply because no one else would have her, and because she had the kind of moral MAUVAISE HONTE which makes the public display of selfishness difficult, though it does not interfere with its private indulgence.†
Chpt 1.3
- She did not, indeed, expect Lily to remain equally immovable: she had all the American guardian's indulgence for the volatility of youth.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- She had indulgence also for certain other habits of her niece's.†
Chpt 1.3
- She knew that this generosity to self is one of the forms of meanness, and she resolved so to identify herself with her husband's vanity that to gratify her wishes would be to him the most exquisite form of self-indulgence.†
Chpt 1.4
- She had never before suspected the mixture of insatiable curiosity and contemptuous freedom with which she and her kind were discussed in this underworld of toilers who lived on their vanity and self-indulgence.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(indulgent) to treat with extra kindness or tolerance