lenience
Example Sentences
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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
Anger at the jury’s lenience swept through San Francisco, especially its gay community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
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
She could afford to be generous to a child, treat with lenience this clever ingenue who in this age could die, or at least imagine herself dying of love.
From When Dreams Come True by William Merritt Berger
