Synonym: easy, gentle, lax, loose, merciful, mild, relaxed, soft, unrestrained. Antonym: severe, strict. Similar words: convenience, violent, talented, equivalent, client, ancient, patient, nutrient. Meaning: ['lɪːnɪənt] adj. 1. tolerant or lenient 2. not strict 3. characterized by tolerance and mercy.
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(61) Don't be too lenient with him.
(62) You should be lenient with them.
(63) If we are uncaring or too lenient.
(64) Clement: Inclined to be lenient or merciful.
(65) The judge was lenient with the wrongdoer.
(66) Ord Mantell has some of the most lenient banking laws in the galaxy.
(67) Germany had to ask, humiliatingly, for lenient implementation of the Stability Pact it had insisted upon, and the European Union agreed.
(68) He, too, received a sentence more lenient than the guidelines suggested.
(69) The bankers used these regulations for their special pleading, urging the government to be more lenient on them and to adopt more stringent regulations for their card holders.
(70) People that are low in self-control are usually relaxed, even-tempered, and lenient.
(71) At daycare Brian has to toe the mark, but at home his mother is quite lenient.
(72) Poor dear old Bishop Grantly had on this matter been too lenient.
(73) So I developed a writing program, and the most important thing is lenient.
(74) Vida was lenient to Carol at the surgical - dressing class.
(75) At daycare Brian has to toe the mark, but at home his mother"s quite lenient."
(76) If the law is too lenient, it will allow the Internet to be used as a means of instilling fear and organizing domestic terrorism.
(77) A more lenient reappraisal of Alister Hardy's aquatic origins theory might help.
(78) Later, people changed it into "Give the wrong-doer a way out. ", indicating to be lenient to the wrong-doers.
(79) He is too lenient. It is impossible for him to harm people.
(80) Direct interlocks are illegal in the U. S. under the Clayton Act(Sentence dictionary), but other countries are more lenient.
(81) The United States food and drug administration requires relatively lenient.
(82) In other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master.
(83) The lenient sentence passed on the convicted rapist caused such a hue and cry that questions were asked in the House of Commons and many people demanded a change in the law.
(84) "Compared with other developed countries, the nation has been lenient towards over-treatment and over-diagnosis and has failed to control the whole system strictly," he says.
(85) I'm lenient enough , Lord knows, but I don't propose to be imposed upon all the time.
(86) We American parents are not so lenient as some of you.
More similar words: convenience, violent, talented, equivalent, client, ancient, patient, nutrient, unrelentingly, scientist, efficient, transient, recipient, ingredient, scientific, sufficient, orientation, entertainment, sentiment, even if, denial, senior, opening, lens, blend, screening, length, calendar, at length, challenged.