mildly

1. see put it mildly.

Example Sentences

"To put it mildly, it was a surprise of my life," said Professor John Clarke, who was born in Cambridge, UK and now works at the University of California in Berkeley.

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When Carina tells her that she didn’t homeschool her son for kindergarten but sent him to public school, Suzanne is mildly horrified.

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Trying to get a precise figure from government officials is challenging, to put it mildly, but I understand from sources it's about £600,000.

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The conference, he wrote, “underscored the movement’s vision of an America rooted in limited immigration, Christian identity and the preservation of what speakers called the nation’s traditional culture” — which is putting it very mildly.

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“What’s been coming out of Washington has been — putting it mildly — very confusing,” he said.

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