lenience

Example Sentences

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Alex is told to co-operate in exchange for "lenience" – but says he wants to seek legal advice.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Anger at the jury’s lenience swept through San Francisco, especially its gay community.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

Tara worked for Community United; many linebreakers probably did, feeling protected by the consortium’s comparative lenience.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2022

Her lawyers say they hope such testimony will bring lenience from the judge, who they say under Russian law has leeway to consider mitigating factors.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022

On my return I was, as I had expected, put to the question, with lenience by Keller Bey, but with biting irony and something like personal dislike by the Procureur Raoux.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)