Lenient is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LENIENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (archaic) something which softens, an emollient
• A lenitive; an emollient.
• lenient person
ADJECTIVE:
• not severe, tolerant
• (of a punishment or person in authority) more merciful or tolerant than expected
• mild or soothing; emollient.
• tolerant, not strict or severe
• Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.
• Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
• tolerant or lenient
• characterized by tolerance and mercy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• gently tolerant

Words related to LENIENT

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Words that contain LENIENT

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How to use LENIENT in a sentence

• So long as priests and nuns have been submissive to the authority of the Church, the Church has been lenient to their opinions.
• But these seaman of his must have been most exemplary saints to have proved docile under so lenient a sway.
• But to-day he was in a more lenient, perhaps in a more human, and therefore more spiritual mood.
• The majority held that the assembly had been lenient with Mr.
• This lenient treatment completely subdued the last vestige of evil habits acquired in childhood.
• In a situation so delicate and important the lenient and persuasive measures which you adopted merit and receive our affectionate approbation.
• We are equally lenient nowadays to many a comic-opera comedian, so called.
• He was perhaps even more cruel than the bulk of the Arsacidae, though his treatment of Meherdates showed that he could be lenient upon occasion.
• If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view of the matter, Lord St.
• But he was accommodating in his credit and lenient to debtors in default.
• There was no thought of protesting the order, however, for they appreciated the fact that the commandant had been especially lenient in leaving the prisoner so long in their care.
• However, it is worth while warning you not to be lenient in self-exaction.
• Yet I fear you have been too lenient for my own peace of mind.
• Except in this single particular, the Roman criminal code, was very lenient and sparing of human life.
• There is no culprit toward whom a jury of men are less lenient than one who has manifested any light sense of his domestic duties.
• That modest and lenient fellow-feeling which gave such charm to his companionship breathes in his gravest writing, and prevents us from finding any page of it cold or hard or dry.
• Palliser became a little more lenient to his wife and slightly less oppressive in his caution.
• Whether this judgment is more lenient or rigorous, more mortifying or honorable, than that which you may expect at the hands of the public, I will not decide.
• Everything so clean, so comfortably well-arranged and the people so lenient in moral matters, that life seemed very easy.
• The adventurous men who could deal thus with miracles would not be supposed to be more lenient to the prophecies of the Scriptures.
• If I were guilty, this treatment would be only too lenient.
• Had they been able to pursue this branch of study in the more leisurely and lenient way of the colleges, both young men might have stood well.
• It is instructive to compare the lenient and common sense attitude of these trained Roman aristocrats with that of the turbulent local mobs who dealt with St.
• That an empire was lost, was nothing compared with the loss of the brother who had always been so lenient to her failings, so responsive to her love.
• I shall be told that all this is lenient as against rebellious adversaries.
• France, by the perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient council in the cabinets of princes, and disarmed it of its most potent topics.
• That public had been wonderfully indulgent toward his shortcomings, lenient with his errors, and tremendously inspiring to his best endeavor.
• A cynical critic cannot expect his victims to be profoundly attached to him, or ready to be lenient to his failings.

Similar words containing LENI without suffix ent

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