permissiveness

Example Sentences

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In recent days, housing industry lobbyists have internally noted the seeming permissiveness of that exemption and others as potential tools for defanging the investor ban, said people familiar with the matter.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Without an investment in the therapeutic parts of the criminal legal system, we seem to be inclined toward one of two extremes — permissiveness or punitiveness.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

The State Department’s top deputy on Latin America complained that Kissinger’s permissiveness was “patently a violation of our principles and policy tenets.”

From Slate • May 27, 2023

Now they also embraced a religiously imbued neo-Victorian moral code, setting themselves in opposition to the permissiveness and moral relativism of the 1960s and 1970s.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2022

Officers critiqued the permissiveness they perceived in each other more than any other quality.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover