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Indulgent   /ɪndˈəldʒənt/   Listen
Indulgent

adjective
1.
Characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone.  Antonym: nonindulgent.
2.
Tolerant or lenient.  Synonyms: lenient, soft.  "Too soft on the children" , "They are soft on crime"
3.
Being favorably inclined.



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"Indulgent" Quotes from Famous Books



... sure that Elizabeth would disapprove as much as Frances of Bannan's taking Chief and the wagonette. You are too indulgent, ...
— Fernley House • Laura E. Richards
... possessions great, Eugene at first began to dream, If but to lighten Time's dull rate, Of many an economic scheme; This anchorite amid his waste The ancient barshtchina replaced By an obrok's indulgent rate:(23) The peasant blessed his happy fate. But this a heinous crime appeared Unto his neighbour, man of thrift, Who secretly denounced the gift, And many another slily sneered; And all with one accord agreed, He ...
— Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] - A Romance of Russian Life in Verse • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
... brother with an indulgent laugh. "I guess they were all right," he enlightened casually. "As for me, I didn't see 'em—any more than the Wall-street men see the wheat they ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... be considered as a vice in him, but if so, it was the only vice with which Mr. Clavering could be charged. He was a kind, soft-hearted, gracious man, tender to his wife, whom he ever regarded as the angel of his house, indulgent to his daughters, whom he idolized, ever patient with his parishioners, and awake—though not widely awake—to the responsibilities of his calling. The world had been too comfortable for him, and also ...
— The Claverings • Anthony Trollope
... effect all this would have on him, in the unspeakable misery it would inflict upon his vain, insolent, self- indulgent organization; and she marveled how he ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth


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