mildly
[ˈmaɪldli]
Definition:
1. To a moderate degree.
2. In a gentle manner.
'mildly' example sentence:
- " They do sound like frauds," said my husband mildly.
- That is, to put it mildly, a rosy way of looking at things.
- "Erm, I don't think so," Willetts says mildly.
- "They do sound like frauds," said my husband mildly.
- China's recent record of historical preservation is, to put it mildly, poor.
- 'I didn't mean to upset you,' he said mildly.
- But not all the money, to put it mildly, has been used wisely.
- He spoke too mildly.
- " I think you've made a mistake," he said mildly.
- And both firms face big engineering challenges, to put it mildly.
- An Experimental Research on Training Reversible Thinking for Mildly Mental Retarded Children.
- Josephine must have had the disease very mildly as she showed no symptoms.
- I was, to put it mildly, disappointed.
- Wider expectations also seem to be mildly inflationary.
- It may mildly stimulate the immune response.
- Saying that John was badly off is to put it mildly. He was indeed penniless.
- There were other mildly encouraging signs.
- The expression "mom jeans" is mildly pejorative6, though in a light-hearted, humorous way.
- Snowden had observed mildly it was because so many different people were trying to listen in.
- For me, these are the keys to being mildly creative.
- To say I had lost the thread is putting it mildly.
- To put it mildly, Salinger is a biographer's nightmare.
- It is, to put it mildly, a highly controversial issue.
- The soup tasted mildly spicy.
- He sat in the middle and talked with us mildly.
- "I'm just observing," Connor said mildly.
- The Clinic Study on Structural and Biomechanical and Functional Characteristics of Mildly Coronary Stenosis.
- It'll upset you every few minutes or so, sometimes mildly, sometimes apocalyptically.
- Figure 1 Outlines the key relationships, simplified mildly.
- Minnesotans seem mildly exasperated by the situation rather than enraged.
- The strain proved contagious but only mildly virulent.
- To say we are disappointed about this is putting it mildly.
- We were mildly surprised to see him again so soon.
- He looks mildly disturbed.
- Renal functions of 2 patients were mildly abnormal.
- That's putting it too mildly.
- Being mildly creative doesn't require speed; just progress.
- Cases with normal or mildly abnormal EEG were re-examined after one week.
- Not all the money, to put it mildly, has been used wisely.
- On their own, cookies are generally harmless, if mildly intrusive.
- The gland in which the glue is generated is mildly acidic.
- Effect of leaching with mildly saline water on corn growth character and yield.
- Putting it mildly, you have caused us some inconvenience.
- Molasses are mildly laxative and something of a general tonic.
- You smile politely, pretending that you've heard the remark and found it mildly humorous.
- The result was unfortunate, to put it mildly.
- He gave Robin a mildly quizzical glance.
- The discussion started off mildly enough.
- I was, to put it mildly, annoyed.
- "I'm not meddling," Ken said mildly, "I'm just curious."
- He is in the marriage bureau business, which is mildly ironic seeing that his dearest wish is to get married himself.
- He is precise and mildly donnish in manner.