tolerant
IPA: tˈɑɫɝʌnt
adjective
- Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.
- Tending to withstand or survive.
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Examples of "tolerant" in Sentences
- After all, "more tolerant" is not the same as tolerant.
- Of interest, the most tolerant is Buddhist, and the most intolerant is Catholicism.
- To suggest that they are tolerant is to suggest that they just get on because they have to.
- To be tolerant is to have a bit of give, to tolerate, to endure that which you'd prefer not to.
- One way to be tolerant is to have personal, specific opinions while allowing for the possibility that you might be mistaken.
- Being tolerant is of course nice, but in my reading of literary biographies, most great writers are anything but, aside from the tolerance they show in their work for the human frailties we all share.
- Holdsworthy was an enthusiast over flowers, and a half lunatic over raising prize poultry; and these engrossing madnesses were a source of perpetual joy to Daylight, who looked on in tolerant good humor.
- Or should we remain tolerant ourselves and try to set an example for these people by doing the live-and-let-live thing as long as they don't drag the "bad" discussions into forums where they don't belong?
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