indulgent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈdʌldʒənt/
indulgent
- Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing;
- an indulgent parent
- to be indulgent to servants
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
- French: indulgent
- German: gutmütig
- Portuguese: indulgente
- Russian: снисходи́тельный
- Spanish: indulgente
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