Indulgent

//ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒənt//

"Indulgent" in a Sentence (11 examples)

I suppose we're a little too indulgent to the dog.

Tom gave a little indulgent smile.

Tom is quite helpful, indulgent even.

Be a little more indulgent!

Be indulgent with people.

Severe to the point of cruelty for young girls who have succumbed to passion, we are more than plenary indulgent for young boys who do the same thing.

Tom was indulgent.

an indulgent parent

to be indulgent to servants

An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

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Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.

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