more forgiving

Example Sentences

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While the free skate is more forgiving, the short program has seven specific requirements, including three for jumps.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

I’d be a little more forgiving and suggest that your response to their gratitude could have been to indicate that you expected them to pay you back.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

After exiting the competition that night, the Forest boss was highly critical of the players who had come into the team but he more forgiving on this occasion.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

Would you be more forgiving if you learned Claudius wasn’t a human but an AI agent?

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

For the rest of her life she imagined her cousins worked for kind and generous masters up north, engaged in more forgiving trades than her own, weaving or spinning, nothing in the fields.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead