Unusually short, as a prison sentence

Usage examples of lenient.

As always, our point is that a double standard should not be employed in the evaluation of paleoanthropological evidencean impossibly strict standard for anomalous evidence and an exceedingly lenient standard for acceptable evidence.

As the girl, by whose beauty I was struck, did not understand the game, I offered her a seat by the fire, asking her to grant me the honour of keeping her company, whereupon the elderly woman who had brought her began to laugh, and said I should have some difficulty in getting her niece to talk about anything, adding, in a polite manner, that she hoped I would be lenient with her as she had only just left a convent.

And to this craving after prose, who would not be lenient, that has at all known life, with its usual predominance of our lower and less courageous selves, our constant hankering after the cosey closed door and line of least resistance?

At the present day there is a gradual tendency to make punishment more lenient and more certain--to remove the entanglements of the pleader, and render progress towards substantial instead of technical justice more sure and speedy.

But the more lenient government showed itself, the more bold and insolent the repealers became.

The United States ambassador in Athens at the time was Henry Tasca, a Nixon and Kissinger crony with a very lenient attitude to the dictatorship.

I shall at all events be more lenient in my judgement of him, and less stern in my allocutions, for I shall have no text to preach from.

But it was lenient with Gregorig, who had called Iro a cowardly blatherskite in debate.

They might have been less lenient with Marle had they felt his stalling would help him.

Mevrouw Pette was full of praise for her hard work, congratulating herself silently for having been lenient with her pupil over the last few days.

Disconcerted by this damning evidence of indigestion, his countenance showed that he considered himself to have been too lenient to the wine of an unhusbanded hostess.

Emir in a lenient mood, then feed the appropriate words to a voice synthesizer and get the anesthetist off the hook.

He knew that Major - de Coverley was his executive officer, but he did not know what that meant, and he could not decide whether in Major - de Coverley he was blessed with a lenient superior or cursed with a delinquent subordinate.

You be a mere novice in the craft, after all, and even old Gurjan might be lenient on you, this being your first time out and all.

It has been described in a previous chapter how Lord Kitchener made an offer to the burghers which amounted to an amnesty, and how a number of those Boers who had come under the influence of the British formed themselves into peace committees, and endeavoured to convey to the fighting commandos some information as to the hopelessness of the struggle, and the lenient mood of the British.