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Indulgent   /ɪndˈəldʒənt/   Listen
Indulgent

adjective
1.
Characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone.
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



... answer?" asked the other, with indulgent patronage. "I assume, however, that you have the authority to accept my surrender and that of my crew. I assume, also, that you are willing to sign for the airship." He opened a drawer, took a paper, and on it wrote a few ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... was sweet and gentle in her manner to all who served her, but she was not weakly indulgent. Although her heart went out in pity towards poor Lucy, whom she had watched on the previous day, in the full flush of delight at her first taste of Court pageantry, and had seen, with some uneasiness, that her beauty had attracted many eyes, ...
— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall

... ever did among his full-grown brethren. It was like the flush of an Arctic summer, blossoming all over, out of and into the stillness, the loneliness, and the chill rigor of winter. Though authoritative in his class without any effort, he was indulgent to everything but conceit, slovenliness of mind and body, irreverence, and above all handling the Word of God deceitfully. On one occasion a student having delivered in the Hall a discourse tinged with Arminianism, he ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown

... Ferrier's thoughts—shrewdly indulgent—strayed to the other conspirators, and to Oliver Marsham in particular, their spokesman and intermediary. Suddenly a great softness invaded him toward Oliver and his mother. After all, had he not been hard with the boy, to leave him to his fight without a word ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... the compact mob trotted little Annie Oombrella. From time to time she dashed herself blindly against that human wall, which repulsed her not too roughly and with indulgent laughter. Their concern was not with her. It was with the coward; their prisoner, delivered by fate to the stern decrees of mob justice. I could hear his voice now, calling out to her in their own language ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams


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