leniently

lenient | American Dictionary

lenient
adjective
us/ˈlin·jənt/
not as severe or strong in punishment or judgment as would be expected:
Some felt that five years in prison was lenient, considering the suffering he had caused.

leniency

noun[ U ]us/ˈlin·jən·si/
The defense lawyer asked for leniency for her young client.

leniently

adverbus/ˈlin·jənt·li/
He said senior officials caught in ethical lapses were treated more leniently than junior employees.

Examples of lenient

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That in itself was sufficient to trigger a more lenient administration of the revenue.
Many of those faced with the practical realities of enforcing proclamations or other regulations of this nature were much more lenient.
This gave way to a more lenient approach that predominated in the 1930s and 1940s.
It is conceivable that the accused might lie from malice or in the hope of more lenient treatment as informers.
Finally, it may be appropriate to be lenient regarding the two-week-or-more time criteria because the need to treat quickly in this population is often imperative.
The staffing supervisors appear to be more lenient with the candidates with whom comembership is established.
A more lenient paradigm offers the programmer better possibilities for clarity and conciseness.
We now describe these and how they are augmented for lenient analysis.
If a firm bargains for lenient regulation, the individual behavior might affect the overall provincial regulatory stringency.
This somewhat dichotomous perspective supports a suspicious antagonism toward the actions of outsider and strangers, but begets a lenient tolerance towards the behaviour of insiders.
His relatively lenient sentence - twenty years in prison - was due in no small measure to the favourable impression he made on the judges.
To a farmer, the lenient definition of elimination will be of little meaning when new cases of mastitis may continue to occur.
Again, the lenient composition operator must be used.
Lenient composition with binary constraints is a special case of the more general notion of generalized lenient composition (provided optimality is global).
In all, 10% of data were removed from the pure list, 16% from the strict mixed list, and 20 % from the lenient mixed list.
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