unexacting

unexacting
a) Not demanding; uncritical; not difficult to satisfy.

Florence . . . had, all through, repaid the agony of slight and coldness, and dislike, with patient unexacting love, excusing him, and pleading for him, like his better angel!

b) Not requiring precision or substantial effort.

But Mrs Eames was a kind, patient, unexacting woman, who took all civil words as meaning civility.


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