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Synonyms:
- forbearance, grace, quarter, self-indulgence, commiseration, folly, accept, correction, lunacy, penalty, forgiveness, sympathy, gentleness, humaneness, favor, charity, lenity, charitableness, mildness, mercifulness, judgment, kindness, indulging, reprisal, lenience, clemency, indulgence, pity, craziness, retribution, lesson, a slap on the wrist, foolery, punishment, payment, benignity, pardon, pampering, softness, mercy, blessing, benevolence, toleration, tomfoolery, tolerance, compassion, tenderness, humoring
Examples:
- - Those who were thoroughly acquainted with the affairs of the office say that he was extremely lenient with employees who were intemperate or otherwise incurred blame, and that his leniency had been extended to Bennett. - "George Brown", John Lewis
- - Those are at your disposal, Mr. Haines, and the balance I promise to procure as speedily as possible; but in plain words, if this money is not recovered, and I do not say this to invite either sympathy or leniency, but because you have questioned my word, I shall have lost everything I own. - "The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale", Frank L. Packard
- - Horses as tavern- signs, 152; rearing of, 226; plenty of, 227; of Conestoga breed, 247; in Boston, 257; on New England wagons, 315; on stage- coaches, 332- 333; false tails on, 333. Hotels, evolution of, 51- 52. Hottle, 112. Hound- handle pitcher, 26. Hundredth Town, 96. Hutchinson, Governor, milestones set by, 350. Ibbetson, sign- board by, 142. Indian Queen Tavern, Bladensburg, 32. Indian Queen Tavern, Philadelphia, 52- 53. Indians, sale of rum prohibited to, 7, 103; leniency to, 92 et seq. - "Stage-coach and Tavern Days", Alice Morse Earle
Antonyms:
- chastisement, scolding, malice, antagonism, atrocity, hardness, animosity, loathing, castigation, savagery, invidiousness, malignancy, penalty, rigor, coarseness, bile, ruthlessness, revenge, discipline, sternness, punishment, justice, jealousy, detestation, execration, vengeance, uncharitableness, savageness, nastiness, venom, pique, enmity, maliciousness, requital, abhorrence, mercilessness, roughness, spleen, meanness, severity, bitterness, reprisal, rancor, abomination, retaliation, retribution, malevolence, spitefulness, cruelty, implacability, resentment, vindictiveness, sadism, hatefulness, brutality, hostility, cattiness, hatred, grudge, wantonness, spite, violence, harshness, malignity, barbarity, hate, truculence, vitriol, antipathy, virulence, pitilessness, jaundice, gall, viciousness
