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Another word for lenient

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lenient

modif.

loving, soft, soft-hearted, easygoing, permissive, favoring, mild, tender, yielding, complaint, pampering, clement, indulgent, humoring, tolerant, forbearing, pardoning, letting, permitting, allowing, gratifying, sympathetic, assuaging, assuasive, emollient; see also kind.

Antonyms severe*, firm, austere.

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Another word for lenient

adjective

Not strict or severe:

charitable, clement, easy, forbearing, indulgent, lax, merciful, soft, tolerant. See accept

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He was as lenient with the offences iof the orthodox as he was rigid in suppressing heresy and schism.
The way was further prepared by a lenient use of the penal laws.
For openly expressing his opinion that lenient measures ought to be pursued towards the Vendeans he was recalled; but in April 1794 he was once more reinstated and sent to the Army of the Sambreand-Meuse.
Since it was the young girl's first time getting pulled over, the police officer let her off with the caveat that next time he would not be so lenient.
Cursor treated his soldiers with such harshness that they allowed themselves to be defeated; but after he had regained their good-will by more lenient treatment and lavish promises of booty, they fought with enthusiasm and gained a complete victory.

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