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lenient::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Derivation | leniency |
| Type | Words |
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| Derivation | lenience, leniency |
lenient rules.
Examples of lenient
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The South has the nation's lowest cigarette taxes and most lenient smoking laws.
From the tennessean.com
They had called the 27-year sentence too lenient and sought to have it extended.
From the chron.com
Its offer was also more lenient toward GM when it comes to technology ownership.
From the businessweek.com
Smerz also said the discipline was too lenient but he was bound by a town order.
From the jsonline.com
The mess has Congress asking why the FAA tolerated years of lenient enforcement.
From the usatoday.com
House arrest is a lenient alternative to prison time or juvenile-detention time.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Cynics might assume that the player is enough of a star for Uefa to be lenient.
From the guardian.co.uk
The notice says the government will be lenient to those who turn themselves in.
From the cnn.com
One state official told me the habitual offender laws are lenient and subjective.
From the boston.com
- Indulgent: tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "too soft on the children"; "they are soft on crime"
- Not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient rules"; "an easy penalty"
- Characterized by tolerance and mercy
- (leniently) laxly: in a permissively lenient manner; "he felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime"
- (leniency) lenience: mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant
- (leniency) indulgence: a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child"
- (leniency) lenience: lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers
- Mercy (Middle English, from Anglo-French merci, from Medieval Latin merced-, merces, from Latin, "price paid, wages", from merc-, merxi "merchandise") can refer both to compassionate behaviour on the part of those in power (e.g. ...
- Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict
