not as strict as expected when punishing sb or when making sure that rules are obeyed:
a lenient sentence / fine * The judge was far too lenient with him.
leniency noun [U]:
She appealed to the judge for leniency.
leniently adverb:
to treat sb leniently
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lenient is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lenient a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lenient is tagged as adjective.
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