Crossword-Solution: LENIENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lenient | a. | Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of. |
| Lenient | a. | Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence. |
| Lenient | n. | A lenitive; an emollient. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LENIENT | anagram | NETLINE, TENNIEL, TNEINEL |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
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greedy person
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Sentences with LENIENT (5)
South American masters often evaded the law and would be exceedingly brutal, and North American masters were often much more lenient than the law required.
The same perplexity will invariably haunt us with regard to natures that tend to feed exclusively upon the Beautiful, let their earthly fate be as lenient as it may.
Those whose extensive researches have given them the means of judging my backslidings with more severity, will probably be lenient in proportion to their knowledge of the difficulty of my task.
Come now, you nasty-smelling people, follow out your theory, and if you make a good fight of it, I swear by my face I will be lenient with those who do not fall.” But there was no pressing up to meet our swords.
The discipline of the troops was so lenient that Dare and Luis--one or both--were generally there in the evenings.
Quotes with LENIENT (3)
For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going. If you don't let it get out of hand, it can be canalized into writing. In this country where people love to be nonjudgmental when they can be, which translates as, on the whole, lenient, there are an awful lot of bub…
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
One: A Book Is A Universe and the Universe is a Book. Inside a book, any Physiks or Magical Laws or Manners or Histories may hold sway. A book is its own universe and while in it, you must play by their rules. More or less. Some of the more modern novels are lenient on this point and have very few policemen to spare. This is why sometimes, when you finish a book, you feel strange and woozy, as though you have just woken up. Your body is getting used to the rules and your own …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 74 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).