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lenient

/lee-nee-uhnt, leen-yuhnt/US // ˈli ni ənt, ˈlin yənt //UK // (ˈliːnɪənt) //

宽松的,宽松,宽大的,宽大

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent: He tended to be lenient toward the children. More lenient laws encouraged greater freedom of expression.
    • : Archaic. softening, soothing, or alleviative.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.permissive
Synonyms
benign良性,良性的compassionate慈悲为怀,怜悯之心,悲天悯人,怜悯compliant顺从,顺从的,符合要求的,符合要求forgiving宽容的,宽容,宽厚的,宽恕的indulgent放任自流,放纵的,放纵,放任sympathetic具有同情心的,有同情心的,具有同情心,有同情心tolerant宽容的,容忍的,容忍,宽容allowing允许,容许,让,准许amiable和蔼可亲,和蔼可亲的,和蔼的,亲切assuaging抚慰,抚慰人心,抚慰性的,抚慰性assuasive劝慰性,劝慰性的,有说服力,有说服力的being big做大,大,庞大,巨大benignant良性的,良性charitable慈善事业,慈善的,慈善,慈善机构clement洁具,洁丽雅,洁丽华,洁莉雅complaisant抱怨,怨天尤人,抱怨的人,埋怨condoning纵容,宽恕,宽容,姑息easy容易,轻松,方便,简单easygoing平易近人,随和的,随和,平易近人的emollient润肤,润肤剂,柔软剂,润湿剂excusing推辞,推脱,解释,推脱责任favoring偏向于,倾向于,偏向,赞成forbearing担当,担当的,担当重任,担当者gentle温文尔雅,温柔,温和,温柔的going easy on从容不迫,轻而易举,从容应对,从容不迫的good-natured心地善良,心地善良的,温和的,善良的humoring幽默,幽默感,幽默的,幽默风趣kind种类,一种,种,样kindly慈祥的,仁慈的,和蔼可亲,慈祥地letting让,让人,让我们,让我们来看看live with与,住在,活在,活用loving爱心,爱护,有爱,有爱的merciful仁慈的,慈悲的,慈祥的,慈悲为怀mild温和的,温和,轻度,平和的obliging有义务,义务,有义务的,有责任心的pampering呵护,宠爱,抚慰,宠辱不惊pardoning赦免,赦免权,赦免令,赦免罪permitting许可证,许可证发放,允许,允许的soft软,软的,软性,软体soft-shell软壳,软壳的,软体,软外壳softhearted心软的人,柔情似水,心软的,温柔的心sparing节约,节省开支,节省费用,节约的spoiling溺爱,破坏性,捣乱,宠爱tender嫩,嫩的,嫩芽,嫩模yielding屈服,柔顺的,屈服的,柔顺

Examples

  • The math of being as lenient as possible for borrowers who are truly without fault has never been more persuasive.

  • Officials also introduced an unusually lenient grading policy — meant to combat a spike in failing grades as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to upend American education.

  • There’s also the question of who really has the power to enforce the gendered double standard—and whether the answer is to be more lenient with female founders or to hold men to a higher standard, as I explore more in another story for Fortune today.

  • Being lenient back at the start of the pandemic has left them with huge numbers to make up before the end of the year.

  • In 46 of the cases, the accused officer was given an outcome more lenient than jail time, like probation or pretrial intervention.

  • The Jewish Week reported that sources said Hynes was expected to dispose of the case with a lenient plea deal.

  • Caminero just sounds like a jerk, and his charge of criminal mischief almost too lenient.

  • The New York Times and The  Guardian asked President Obama to be lenient on the leaker in two editorials Thursday.

  • In other words, Berlusconi's trivialization of the Shoah and his lenient views regarding Mussolini are not uncommon.

  • Pushing more lenient sentencing polices was not going to be the White House's priority straight out of the gate.

  • Usually the teacher was very lenient with Mother Wit, for of all her pupils Laura gave her the least trouble.

  • Val once said he had been more sinned against than sinning: it may be deemed that in that opinion he was too lenient to himself.

  • A moiling, toiling man, who shows no mercy to himself, is only lenient to others by excess of reason.

  • The society into which he went was disposed to be exceedingly lenient to fashionable excesses.

  • Though he has the reputation of being severe, he is far more lenient with other people's children than his own.