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lenience
Synonyms and Antonyms of lenience
- a judgeʼs reputation for lenience towards first-time criminals
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, uncharitableness
reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance
venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, violence, wantonness
castigation, chastisement, discipline, punishment, scolding
abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, hate, hatred, loathing
cattiness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen
animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, gall, grudge, hostility, jealousy, pique, resentment
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