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Adverb: leniently  leen-yunt-lee or lee-nee-unt-lee [N. Amer], lee-nee-unt-lee [Brit]
  1. In a permissively lenient manner
    "he felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime";
    - laxly