Synonyms and Antonyms of lenity
- a social critic who argues that judicial lenity is chiefly to blame for the increased criminality that plagues us
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, uncharitableness
reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance
venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, violence, wantonness
castigation, chastisement, discipline, punishment, scolding
abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, hate, hatred, loathing
cattiness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen
animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, gall, grudge, hostility, jealousy, pique, resentment