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lenientadjective allowing a lot of freedom and not punishing bad behavior in a strong waya teacher who is lenient with students who have misbehaved The public was outraged by the lenient sentence the corrupt banker received. clement, forbearing, forgiving, merciful, softbeneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmheartedattentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtfulaffable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warmpatient, pitying, tolerant, understandingaltruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic(also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparinganticruelty, cruelty-free grim, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, strict, toughironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyheartedinconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinkinghateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulentantihumanitarian, uncharitableatrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton in 1652 |