lenience

Example Sentences

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Alex is told to co-operate in exchange for "lenience" – but says he wants to seek legal advice.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Tara worked for Community United; many linebreakers probably did, feeling protected by the consortium’s comparative lenience.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2022

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

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

He had rebuffed every overture to cut a deal, to plead, to inform on codefendants in exchange for lenience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021

On my return I was, as I had expected, put to the question, with lenience by Keller Bey, but with biting irony and something like personal dislike by the Procureur Raoux.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)