Sample sentences for INDULGENT

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Definition

to treat with extra kindness or tolerance

In the form, indulgence, the word can also refer to a special pleasure—typically something done in excess of what is thought good—such as eating too much cake, or being too lazy

Indulgent parents risk spoiling their children.

indulgent = treating with extra kindness or leniency (in this case, not demanding enough of the children)

Her parents are strict, but her grandparents are indulgent.

indulgent = with a tendency to treat with extra kindness or leniency

just because you are Dumbledore's favourite boy, you must not expect the same indulgence from the rest of us...
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

indulgence = treatment with extra kindness or tolerance

Bethany was growing into a young woman with a bright future who would thrive in this self-indulgent landscape called North America.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters

self-indulgent = excessively kind to or undemanding of oneself

He was one of those rare men who are rigid to themselves and indulgent to others.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch

indulgent = treat with extra kindness or tolerance

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.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

indulgent = like he is treating himself too well (excessive kindness to himself without enough concern for the cost)

"Maybe I deserve to be killed."
"Stop that!" Lee said coldly. "That can be the cheapest kind of self-indulgence."
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

self-indulgence = being excessively undemanding of oneself

Privacy was an adult indulgence, but when he got to be one, he seemed not to need it.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved

indulgence = thing enjoyed

Thorolf tilted his head indulgently, like he was dealing with not-very-bright children.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

indulgently = with extra kindness or tolerance

Archie allowed himself the indulgence of a quiet, confident laugh, but closed his fists to hide his moist palms.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War

indulgence = special pleasure (something enjoyed more than he might normally permit)

GEORGE: You're a spoiled, self-indulgent, willful, dirty-minded, liquor-ridden ....
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

self-indulgent = excessively tolerant to or undemanding of oneself

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

self-indulgent = excessively tolerant to or undemanding of oneself while too focused on personal desires

However, tonight, with your indulgence, let me share with you my own views.
Gerald R. Ford -- A War That is Finished

indulgence = treatment with extra kindness or tolerance

Father was a fond, indulgent husband, but a man that never flinched from anything that he thought necessary;
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin

indulgent = kind and tolerant

Given the circumstances, I guess I deserve one day of indulgence.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

indulgence = special pleasure—typically something done in excess of what is thought good

They spoiled her, and she, as a favor to their indulgence, hid as best she could the fact that they embarrassed her.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon

indulgence = treatment with extra kindness and tolerance

When a child says he's seen a troll in his bedroom or a vampire outside the window, we simply smile indulgently.
Stephen King -- The Shining

indulgently = with extra kindness or tolerance

But once a year, they all smiled indulgently at the commotion from the little ones waiting to receive their names and families.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

indulgently = with extra tolerance or kindness

Dick laughed indulgently at Abe, whom he loved, and in whom he had long lost hope:
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night

indulgently = with extra kindness or tolerance

Haymitch, his face puffy and red from the previous day's indulgences, is chuckling.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

indulgences = things enjoyed excessively (knowing Haymitch, probably alcohol)

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