"mild" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Raven kept up a steady stream of quips and mild insults as they drove into the city.
- She wondered if it was the announcement or the mild insult that had his eyes narrowing in speculation.
- From other boxers, Lewis's gracelessness and mild insults ("Evander Holyfield is slow, an old man, why take advantage of him?")
- Kendall smiled to take the sting out of her mild insult.
- A cart driver all his life, Mr. Shahtout is known as an arbagi, an Arabic word that is also used as a mild insult.
- Alexei ignored the mild insult.
- Today, the phrase "cafe intellectual" is a mild, obsolete insult.
- Am I right in assuming that some of these mild insults Dr. Baskin conveyed fell into the category of affectionate teasing?
- Onions should grow in your navel: a mild insult (Yiddish).
- Shooting off a mild Ukrainian insult, she headed for the kitchen.
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