lenient

How To Use lenient In A Sentence

• The offender was dealt with leniently as he had confessed his crime.
• KOBE: We arrived at Kobe on the evening of April 10th, and fell at once into the grasp of the custom-house authorities, who proved, however, very lenient. Travels in the Far East
• Handing down the legal equivalent of a rap on the knuckles, Judge Teare said the public might see his compassion as "impossibly lenient", but explained he had been swung by the moral standing of those arraigned before him, as set out by counsel of the defence in mitigation. Hugh Muir's diary
• Professor Oswald takes a sightly more lenient view.
• Now they are exploiting the UK's more lenient bankruptcy regime to rid themselves of their debts. Times, Sunday Times
• Questions are being asked about this lenient treatment, not least because it could put him at risk from attack. Times, Sunday Times
• They believe that judges are too lenient with terrorist suspects.
• Many thought this too lenient a punishment for a teenager who had created the world's most prolific computer worms.
• He is a likeable enough rogue, worthy of lenient treatment by this Court.
• Should I hand myself in, in the hope of a more lenient sentence? The Sun