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indulgent

/in-duhl-juhnt/US // ɪnˈdʌl dʒənt //UK // (ɪnˈdʌldʒənt) //

放任自流,放纵的,放纵,放任

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by or showing indulgence; benignly lenient or permissive: an indulgent parent.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.lenient, giving

Examples

  • Now that I’m at a station in my professional life where I’m kept up at night by concerns that go far beyond myself, such indulgent bouts are fewer and further between.

  • In indulgent societies, more people play sports, while in restrained societies, sports are more something you watch.

  • This current spring release featuring intentional colors, indulgent textures, and peak boldness to cultivate ideal yet mod selects for spring.

  • So you’ll forgive a moment of indulgent irrationality and some merriment.

  • It feels more indulgent than the usual PB&J or energy bar but is still easy to snack on during lift rides without making a mess.

  • Both followed wars; people were tired of idealism and self-sacrifice and were determined to enjoy a self- indulgent materialism.

  • His last words, or so they say, were woefully self-indulgent: “Why me, Johnny Lazia, who has been the friend of everybody?”

  • A British editorialist called it, “mesmerizingly precious and hideously self-indulgent.”

  • Then, after their brief, indulgent stare, the two of them took off down the street, clearly unimpressed.

  • Oftentimes public fear like this can be a self-indulgent kind of collective astral projection.

  • Isabel's eyes were dancing with so purely youthful and feminine a triumph that he could not but feel indulgent.

  • Undoubtedly, as they grow stronger and stronger, it will be wise in the home government to be more and more indulgent.

  • He delivered his repeated phrases with an unctuous indulgent roll that made Gwynne long to grind his teeth.

  • He was a loving, indulgent father, and the girls adored him, but no sterner disciplinarian ever held sway.

  • Elsie would think it self-indulgent and abominable to stay in bed to breakfast—I don't.