leniently
- a word derived from lenient.
Example Sentences
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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
Those litigants generally have been treated leniently by judges who recognize their inexperience; they seldom are fined, though their cases may be dismissed.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
Will the judges in London refuse to release him to U.S. authorities, leery of this 100-plus-year-old law and the possibility that a judge today might act less leniently than Ellis?
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2024
For example, when the city of Isfahan, in Persia, surrendered peacefully, he treated the residents leniently.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Even the tender and touching compliments exchanged between author and editor in their respective prefaces, did not mollify us, or dispose us to look leniently upon a poor production.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
