less severe

Synonyms

lighter

Examples

Life teaches us to be less severe with ourselves and others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary. Barbara Demick

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe. Charles M. Vest

The more democratic freedom a people have, the less severe their internal political violence. Rudolph Rummel

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. William J. Brennan

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. William J. Brennan

Words in the phrase

less severe

Close letter words and terms

less serene less serviceable less servile less shakable less shakeable less shamefully