Indulgent meaning

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Indulging or inclined to indulge; kind or lenient, often to excess.
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The definition of indulgent is someone who is lenient or who gives into whims and desires.

A parent who gives into the whims of his children is an example of an indulgent parent.

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Showing, characterized by, or given to permissiveness or generosity with regard to others.

An indulgent parent; an indulgent book review.

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Showing, characterized by, or given to self-indulgence.

Indulgent habits.

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Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or give way to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing; showing or ready to show favor; favorable; indisposed to be severe or harsh, or to exercise necessary restraint: as, an indulgent parent; to be indulgent to servants.
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Sentence Examples

  • Swedish historians have been excusably indulgent to the father of their greatest ruler.

  • Indeed, he was considered by his stern brethren as somewhat too fond and indulgent a parent.

  • Kalinka is, however, far too severe upon the patriots and much too indulgent towards King Stanislaus.

  • My father was most loving and indulgent, devoted to his home, seldom leaving us, except in the hunting season.

  • He was affable to the point of familiarity, quick-witted like a true Gascon, good-hearted, indulgent, yet skilled in reading the character of those around him, and he could at times show himself severe and unyielding.

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