English-Spanish translations for leniency

• clemencia
• indulgencia
  No defiendo en absoluto la indulgencia en el trato. I make no case for leniency of treatment at all.
  Por lo tanto, no debe mostrarse indulgencia alguna con estos tiranos y dictadores. Therefore, no leniency whatsoever should be shown towards these tyrants and dictators.
  Por tanto, creo que cualquier manifestación de indulgencia por parte de la Unión Europea estaría fuera de lugar. I therefore believe that any display of leniency by the European Union would be out of place.

Definition of leniency

• The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case
• An act of being lenient

Examples

• The convicted felon asked for leniency, but because the crime was so heinous the judge refused and gave the maximum sentence.

Related words

• lenient
• leniently
• lenience
• lenient harmless
• be lenient with