exacting vs lenient

exacting

adj
  • Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention. 

  • Characterized by exaction. 

  • Making great demands; difficult to satisfy. 

lenient

adj
  • Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation 

noun
  • A lenitive; an emollient. 

How often have the words exacting and lenient occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )