leniently
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The son of a well-to-do Hartford, Conn., jeweler, Church was leniently permitted by his father to pursue his artistic vocation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
If a line prosecutor proposes to charge a crime either far more harshly or far more leniently than in previous cases, she had better have a compelling reason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
Some groups opposed his return to his own country because of concerns that he would likely be treated leniently.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
For example, when the city of Isfahan, in Persia, surrendered peacefully, he treated the residents leniently.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The pariah pion or outcast usher, a most unhappy out-at-elbows youth, was expected to keep us all under his eye, but we saw to it early that that eye passed leniently over Deventer and myself.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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