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Lenient

adjective

Tolerant or lenient. Synonyms: indulgent, soft. "Too soft on the children" , "They are soft on crime"

Not strict. "Easy standards" , "Lenient rules" , "An easy penalty"

Characterized by tolerance and mercy.

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"Lenient" Quotes from Famous Books

... Eloise found him a shade less taciturn than usual to-night. He felt vaguely that he now had an ally of his own flesh and blood in the house, a spirit sufficiently kindred to prefer his society to theirs, and this made him unusually lenient. ...

— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham

... pulpit he looked straight down into the tall Rectory pew, and once or twice his eyes involuntarily sought its occupants. Once, indeed, he paused in his discourse. It was after the words— "We are totally mistaken if we persuade ourselves that Christ was lenient towards sin. He made no hesitation in driving the money-changers from His Father's temple even with a whip. But He discriminated between the sin and the sinner. The fig-tree He blasted was one which, bearing no fruit, yet made a false show of health: the Pharisees He ...

— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... recks not for weapons; I this do scorn then, so be Higelac gracious, My liegelord beloved, lenient of spirit, 65 To bear a blade or a broad-fashioned target, A shield to the onset; only ...

— Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem • The Heyne-Socin

... police, jury commissioner—in fact, an all-around potentate. Sort of Pooh-bah, you know. For serious offences, such as wife beating, wife stealing, or having more than one wife at a time, we were not so lenient. The offender, on conviction, was strung up by the thumbs and used as a target by amateurs who desired to become proficient in the use of the cattle-adder. Murderers were attended to a trifle more expeditiously. They were strung ...

— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon

... imposed on the vanquished are nothing but arms of oppression. What more could Germany herself have done had she won the War? Perhaps her terms would have been more lenient, certainly not harder, as she would have understood that conditions such as we have imposed on the losers are ...

— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti

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