Lenient
"Lenient" in a Sentence (12 examples)
He tended to be lenient toward the children.
Extenuating circumstances led the judge to pass a more lenient sentence.
Tom is too lenient with his students.
Be lenient!
Tom was lenient.
We've been far too lenient with Tom.
We've been way too lenient with Tom.
We've been very lenient with Tom.
I'm not always so lenient.
The weather was lenient.
The standard is fairly lenient, so use your discretion.
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. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.
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