Adverb
In a lenient manner.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is love that leniently and mercifully says: I forgive you everything-if you are forgiven only little, then it is because you love only little. Justice severely sets the boundary and says: No further! This is the limit. For you there is no forgiveness, and there is nothing more to be said. P. 172. Soren Kierkegaard
What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. Frank Abagnale
No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently. Marie Antoinette
he felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime Source: Internet
Adenauer acted more leniently towards the trade unions and employers' associations than Erhard. Source: Internet
A separate draft legal text, also obtained by the BBC, lists the UK's request for manufacturing of electric cars, batteries, and bicycles to be treated leniently, and count as British, even if the majority of components come from elsewhere. Source: Internet