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indulgently

[ UK /ɪndˈʌld‍ʒəntli/ ]
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  1. in an indulgent manner
    I was indulgently advised to give the kids what they wanted unless I wished my son to be socially ostracised

How To Use indulgently In A Sentence

  • Crisp triangles of French toast are layered with citrus segments and indulgently oozy oil-glossed pieces of warm foie gras, the best liver known to carnivores.
  • Mark is getting all evangelical about this one,' Colin grinned, almost indulgently. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • Neumeier's work is self-indulgently long, banal, unmusical both in its choice of scores and in its response to them, intermittently pretentious and uncertain in tone.
  • Ian preferred moody songwriters who slowly strummed guitars and wallowed self-indulgently in their own impenetrable deepness.
  • This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s.
  • And it is, perhaps, the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture’, says Ruskin, that they thus receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfection, and betraying that imperfection in every touch, indulgently raise up a stately and unaccusable whole.’ Wildwood
  • How come society winked indulgently at his ‘excesses’ while reserving stern castigation for the rest?
  • This Newburg makes a great brunch entrée served over toasted English muffins or, more indulgently, spooned into hot popovers.
  • Mark is getting all evangelical about this one,' Colin grinned, almost indulgently. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • His womenswear sets razor-sharp tailoring against indulgently romantic dresses formed from layers of fragile chiffon.
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