What is "mildly"

Usage examples of "mildly".

When the bark of the main stems is wounded, a gum will exude, and may be collected: it possesses astringent and mildly aperient properties.

The bark is mildly aperient and causes no nausea, whilst at the same time stimulating the liver somewhat freely.

The most fervent patriot must admit that the early voyages of Drake were, to put it mildly, of a buccaneering kind, although his late voyages were more nearly akin to privateering cruises than piracy.

It was a gentle eye and but mildly curious, having no remote suspicion of the dreadful truth, for Sam had backed upon the chest of drawers and closed the damnatory open one with the calves of his legs.

The police took details, a description, and a photograph, and were mildly reassuring, reminding him that people often went a bit doolally around Christmastime, it was well known.

When he did indulge in reminiscent talk, he used the Chinese language, and the man to whom he expressed his views was Foy - the sinister servant whom Ling mildly dubbed The Slayer.

He was blinking mildly when the door opened and Foy entered, followed by the man who called himself Hugo Barnes.

Placido Geist ordered a whiskey and was mildly surprised when Billy did the same.

Warrant Gundy was enraged, to put it mildly, and started yelling about courts-martial, dawn executions, official reprimands, and so forth.

Rounding the hood of the truck, he walked toward the hatted figure, mildly annoyed that the man had yet to look up.

With this notion, he set himself to sow debts broadcast, and only laughed at his tutor when he mildly reproached him for his extravagance, and pointed out that if he were saving for the present, he would be able to be all the more magnificent on his return to Venice.

The Rebels had intercepted several radio messages between Khamsin and his field commanders, and Khamsin, to put it mildly, was highly pissed-off.

George Lippard, whose previous literary efforts had been confined almost exclusively to producing mildly pornographic novels.

This was a man whose upset mind had been so manipulated that its continued sanity depended on two factors: the overpowering need to consult Loob whenever anything even mildly delicate came up, and the belief that he could be consulted without revealing the actual data of the situation.

Thurlo Pike had seen of Gull Moler was a man mildly affronted when the good name of his tavern was brought into question, he was quick to nod his head.