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Indulgent Indulge ɪn'dʌldʒənt Adj.放任的;宽容的 Mother Bought Children Wanted

Front indulgent
Pron [ɪn'dʌldʒənt]
Back 【indulgent】
adj.放任的;宽容的
The indulgent mother bought her children everything they wanted.
这个溺爱的母亲买给孩子任何他们要的东西。
The indulgent teacher praised every poem we wrote.
这位宽容的老师称赞我们所作的每一首诗。
Vocab
indulgentcharacterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone

Someone who is self-indulgent gives themselves a lot of treats. Parents who are indulgent cave to ever desire their child expresses. Indulgent means lenient, or overly generous.

Indulgent is a word that, here in Puritanical North America, is hard to know how to take. Is it okay to “indulge yourself” as so many spa advertisements suggest? Or is indulgent always associated with excess? You can indulge fantasies of figuring out the answer, or you can give in to an indulgent shrug and move on to another word.

All forms of 'indulgent' will appear on average once every 1120 pages.
indulgent
indulgently
nonindulgent
overindulgent
self-indulgent
self-indulgently

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