All soft-shell synonyms
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S s adjective soft-shell
- allowing — to give permission to or for; permit: to allow a student to be absent; No swimming allowed.
- excusing — Present participle of excuse.
- mollycoddling — Present participle of mollycoddle.
- assuaging — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- favouring — Present participle of favour.
- favoring — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- letting — Archaic. to hinder, prevent, or obstruct.
- longanimous — Long-suffering; patient; showing self-control and restraint.
- humouring — humor.
adj soft-shell
- live with — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- assuasive — soothing; allaying
- lenient — agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent: He tended to be lenient toward the children. More lenient laws encouraged greater freedom of expression.
- longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.