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Indulgent

adjective

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

Tolerant or lenient. Synonyms: lenient, soft. "Too soft on the children" , "They are soft on crime"

Being favorably inclined.

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"Indulgent" Quotes from Famous Books

... attain anything goes far towards success. Fearful of being thought forward, yet longing to please, she seemed to awaken an interest in Lord Bromley; though he talked playfully to all three, his indulgent smile was for Bluebell. Another expression appeared sometimes on his face, the same that had perplexed her the previous evening—an investigating, speculating glance: and once, when becoming more at ease, her features resumed their play, his were suddenly contorted, ...

— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

... at Florence. A sculptor of the present day can find no better study for his art than the attitudes and changes of countenance in an eloquent speaker; but which of them can be said to have taken advantage of this? Story made an attempt in his statue of Everett, but even his most indulgent friends did not consider it a success. His "George Peabody," opposite the Bank of England, could not perhaps have been altogether different ...

— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns

... Honor is so indulgent," said Mr. Maddledock, as he glanced at the scrawl upon the bit of cardboard and bowed to his daughter, "and with the approval of the prosecutor, I am constrained to ask the Court's consent to a ...

— Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York • Lemuel Ely Quigg

... husband with all her heart and soul. His very weakness of character endeared him the more to her. She was not blind to his faults, but she excused them. His vices, his drinking, cigarette smoking and general shiftlessness were, she argued, the result of bad associates. He was self-indulgent. He made good resolutions and broke them. But he was not really vicious. He had a good heart. With some one to watch him and keep him in the straight path, he would still give a good account of himself to the world. She was confident ...

— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow

... rather more indulgent with his father than with any one else, he noticed. Mr. Wheeler stopped to see her almost every day, and even took her driving in his old buckboard. Bayliss came out from town to spend the evening occasionally. ...

— One of Ours • Willa Cather

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