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leniently
adverb as in lightly
Strongest matches
adverb as in reasonably
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Despite taking a more lenient stance, county public health authorities stressed that none of this means people should be returning to life as usual.
In countries that experienced more lenient lockdowns, ridership ebbed a bit but stayed persistently higher than the expected average.
Timber companies have successfully fought to keep Oregon’s laws more lenient than neighboring states, lobbying lawmakers and the public through opinion campaigns to burnish the industry’s reputation.
In a statement, the head of the NCAA’s Division I Council said the body has been more lenient this year in recognition of the unusual circumstances brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
Back then media owners were more lenient when it came to letting advertisers wriggle out of media commitments.
“We are cutting the business tax rate… and specifically targeting multinationals, so they are taxed more leniently,” he said.
Lowell had treated Fire Bear leniently—too leniently most of the white men near the reservation had considered.
Sometimes she ventures to hope that the editor will judge her work leniently, since she is only a beginner.
As it is, I am too old a man to be indulged leniently by the public in such a proceeding.
Yet it would appear that abstract justice judged less leniently of the position.
It shouldn't be, then, in my opinion, even if it could be; Margaret Cruger has been much too leniently dealt with.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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