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lenient
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  • They are fools, and young, and I have been too lenient with them.  (source)
    lenient = tolerant (not strict)
  • Half an hour for breakfast, and no shower after a battle--it was still stingy, but it would look lenient compared to fifteen minutes.  (source)
    lenient = not strict
  • Then maybe I would have found some leniency.  (source)
    leniency = less strictness (more forgiveness)
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  • They assumed you were more likely to be lenient with people you knew.  (source)
    lenient = less strict or more tolerant than might be expected
  • One officer, upon learning that another guard had shown leniency to captives, assaulted the guard with a sword.  (source)
    leniency = less strictness than would be expected
  • That he would be leniently treated, I could not hope.  (source)
    leniently = with a lack of strictness
  • Hanna felt squirmy; her mom was usually really lenient, but then, Hanna had never been taken downtown and had the book thrown at her or whatever.  (source)
    lenient = not strict
  • And I intend no disrespect when I say this, I want you to know, but I have certain… reservations… about the way your parents--Allah, forgive them and grant them a place in paradise--about their, well, their leniency with you.  (source)
    leniency = lack of strictness
  • 'His father died in debt,' he said; 'the whole property is mortgaged, and the sole chance for the natural heir is to allow him an opportunity of creating some interest in the creditor's heart, that he may be inclined to deal leniently towards him.'  (source)
    leniently = without strictness
  • A certain Mr. Beaverbrook often talks on the English radio about what he considers to be the far too lenient bombardment of Germany.  (source)
    lenient = lacking harshness
  • I grant you a leniency that others don't enjoy.  (source)
    leniency = less strictness or more tolerance than might be expected
  • And so-called honor killings were still viewed leniently in Sharia courts.†  (source)
    leniently = in a less strict manner than might be expected
  • But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master: I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out.  (source)
    lenient = tolerant or forgiving
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