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mildly



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see put it mildly .

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In that sense, the last Report was mildly unsatisfying as a conclusion, in that it left so much unresolved.

What makes Noah mildly ambivalent, yet cautiously optimistic?

What was once sexy and mildly transgressive—the perfect antidote to Twilight—devolved into a repetitive, unimaginative mess.

As mildly irritating as David Tseng may be, he is not someone who troubles me enough to even bother with.

He claimed, “LaBeouf seems to carry with him, to put it mildly, a jailhouse mentality wherever he goes.”

“Inflammable,” mildly suggested Mr. Pickwick, who thought something worse was coming.

Planner looked at the letter, read it—then turned his eyes mildly and reproachfully upon his accuser.

"Oh, I don't think he meant to be ill-mannered," interposed Betty mildly, as she reached Nigger and he whinnied a welcome.

"You are mistaken there," said Anna, very mildly, for the honest encomiums of the poor man had calmed her anger.

They scarcely breathed, and the summer night that was so mildly beautiful seemed to take on a sense of hovering danger.

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