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

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

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2022

Mr. Chisholm has also been criticized for lenience.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2021

Lenity is undoubtedly the proper word to use, though both Webster and Worcester do recognize leniency and lenience.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly