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Indulgent parents risk spoiling their children.indulgent = treating with extra kindness or leniency (in this case, not demanding enough of the children)
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Her parents are strict, but her grandparents are indulgent.indulgent = with a tendency to treat with extra kindness or leniency
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Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary. (source)self-indulgent = excessively kind to or undemanding of oneself
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I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me. (source)self-indulgent = excessively tolerant to or undemanding of oneself while too focused on personal desires
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Haymitch, his face puffy and red from the previous day's indulgences, is chuckling. (source)indulgences = things enjoyed excessively (knowing Haymitch, probably alcohol)
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At the water's edge, one of the babies ventured out, squeaked, and scrambled back while the adults watched indulgently. (source)indulgently = with extra kindness or tolerance
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It would hardly be proper to remove my coat, but if I can beg my lady's indulgence, I will unfasten a button or two. (source)indulgence = treatment with extra kindness or tolerance
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"I've always wanted to study law" He gives me the indulgent smile of an adult hearing an outrageous claim from a child. (source)indulgent = treating with extra kindness or tolerance
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But once a year, they all smiled indulgently at the commotion from the little ones waiting to receive their names and families. (source)indulgently = with extra tolerance or kindness
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Simon feels a certain contempt for material self-indulgence; and as a medical student he became habituated to a monkish austerity, and to working long hours under difficult conditions. (source)self-indulgence = being excessively kind to or undemanding of oneself
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I told him I would give him no such thing, for neither he nor I was of an age for such indulgences. (source)indulgences = excessive enjoyments
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I was sure that I'd made a mistake, that I'd been self-indulgent and presumptuous and insulting, and that I'd never hear back from him. (source)self-indulgent = excessively tolerant to or undemanding of oneself
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Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.† (source)overindulgence = treatment with excessive kindness or tolerancestandard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overindulgence means excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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Which was why Alex Conklin telephoned him after a generally overindulgent lunch-also established-with an "update" of the Snake Lady crisis.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overindulgent means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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just because you are Dumbledore's favourite boy, you must not expect the same indulgence from the rest of us… (source)indulgence = treatment with extra kindness or tolerance
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When he reaches Broadway he changes his mind and hails a cab. The decision feels indulgent, as it is not particularly late, or cold, or raining, and he is in no great rush to be home. (source)indulgent = like he is treating himself too well (excessive kindness to himself without enough concern for the cost)
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