lenience

Example Sentences

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"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

While asking for lenience, Mr. Avenatti’s lawyers cited his history of championing “the voiceless and powerless.”

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

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

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant _un_kindness, the most remote from Deronda's large imaginative lenience toward others.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George