- a variation of leniency.
lenience
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While at Pinellas County Jail, he testified against or volunteered information on more than two dozen defendants in exchange for lenience from prosecutors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"It's difficult with professors who themselves have busy schedules, trying to say, 'oh, can I have a 20-minute lenience window?' It's quite embarrassing."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
He had rebuffed every overture to cut a deal, to plead, to inform on codefendants in exchange for lenience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
Minari’s Alan Kim probably gets dress-code lenience for his red-carpet shorts because he’s a kid, and because they’re Thom Browne.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2021
She referred not only to Katherine's lenience of spirit toward Leslie Cairns, but to her proposed thoughtful disposal of the fruit and flowers.
From Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore by Pauline Lester
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