He felt that he was leniently treated when he was unable to pay the loan on time. From LearnThat.org.
He felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : He tended to be lenient toward the children. More lenient laws encouraged greater freedom of expression. From Dictionary.com.
Why, "leniently," bless your heart, mother, don't you s'pose I know a buggy and a carryall when I see 'em? ". From Wordnik.com. [Jewel] Reference
His wife and the servant were leniently dealt with. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
He looked leniently on this little weakness of hers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
House girl, yet others might not regard you so leniently. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
The Rajputs seem at first to have treated the Bhils leniently. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The old living-room of the cabin had been more leniently dealt with. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
The homely native word pleased the old man, and he smiled leniently. From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
He went home, determined to deal leniently with Pierre in the future. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
And why do people get treated more leniently when the victim is a baby?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2006] Reference
"Judy likes to see herself go by in the mirror," smiled Elinor leniently. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
In no other walk of life could such crude behaviour get off so leniently. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
At least make it clear that future infractions won't be treated leniently. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Campaign Calls For Party-Run Primary In Michigan] Reference
We will deal leniently; will not let an arrow fly when thy counterpart is near. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
"Sire," he said, bowing deeply, "sire, I thank you for treating me so leniently.". From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
Do we treat them more leniently because they are contributing members of society?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2007] Reference
But the friends of the Marquise are disposed to treat her caprices very leniently. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
His favorite art was music; he judged leniently of dancing, and, fifty years before. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
But his deception, if only we may judge him leniently, was of a very pardonable kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The world looks leniently on them, and sometimes sympathises with them as good jokes. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Meanwhile, violent offenders are treated much more leniently under the same guidelines. From Wordnik.com. [President Remarks At Billings Mt Town Hall Meeting] Reference
Never did rebellion collapse more ignominiously; never were rebels treated so leniently. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
As it is, I am too old a man to be indulged leniently by the public in such a proceeding. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"More than that, they will be able to view leniently the mistakes that are still to be made.". From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
"But for the sake of your daughter's name you intend to deal leniently with me," Walcott sneered. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
She looked so pretty as she handed it to him that he tore it open leniently, but no bill fell out. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Pan K---- thinks Warsaw will be treated leniently, as Germany wishes to enlist the German sympathizers. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
She loved its variety, its movement, its gaiety; she judged leniently even its faults and its frailties. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
She should never repent the step, and he prayed me, when I thought of him, to think as leniently as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
If your son likes to give himself up, we will deal with him as leniently as possible to avoid delay and -- expense. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
Boer officers under whose immediate control they were placed dealt, as a rule, very kindly and leniently with them. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
"Study after study shows that people who are attractive are treated more leniently by juries," she says in an interview. From Wordnik.com. [Brush With Perfection] Reference
We are not to judge Providence, yet it certainly appears that masculine imprudences are viewed more leniently from on high. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Thyself, of sure aim, hast ordained our extermination in battle, for thou treatest Arjuna leniently, since he is thy disciple. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Botha in South Africa, where only one had been executed and the rest exceedingly leniently treated, and stop the executions forthwith. From Wordnik.com. [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference
Alcibiade, as a Frenchman, and, moreover, as being still possessed of a certain amount of hard cash, was also more leniently dealt with. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
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