Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an indulgent manner; with indulgence, leniency, or compliance, or without severity or restraint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
indulgent manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an indulgent manner
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Examples
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Antiquities, 20.1.3]. hear me patiently -- The idea of "indulgently" is also conveyed.
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She had occasionally other droll little ways of differing from the family, which were called indulgently "Lydia's notions."
The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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One of the key problems with this new initiative is that an honest attempt to convey the views of many of its authors would make the word "indulgently", and the quotation marks around "understand", superfluous to requirements.
Archive 2006-04-01 Garry 2006
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One of the key problems with this new initiative is that an honest attempt to convey the views of many of its authors would make the word "indulgently", and the quotation marks around "understand", superfluous to requirements.
No Apology For Strawmen Garry 2006
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Why, "indulgently," yu couldn't marry her -- yu couldn't marry her no more'n yu could kill me.
Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911
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There is no chance whatsover that a white perpetrator of voting rights violations would have been treated so indulgently.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the SG’s Brief in U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria 2010
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Odin hefted the axe over his shoulder and smiled indulgently as the boar reached him.
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He’s with the other soldiers, remonstrating away. “Don’t you worry,” repeats my guy indulgently, a broad smile spreading across his face as if we are the best of buddies. “Give them time.” And then, as if to pass the time himself, he adds, “So, how do you like our excellent country?
Lawrence Weschler: The Art of the Shakedown, From the Nile to the Potomac Lawrence Weschler 2011
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- She is a Russian speaker – indulgently explained the other one – she does not speak our language (Azerbaijani) well.
Global Voices in English » Azerbaijan: Dynamic blogosphere 2009
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I was just feeling guilty about self indulgently going on about my blogging woes when what I should have been doing was encouraging you to keep going but you made it seem all ok.
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