mildly *

I thought of you more than once, to put it mildly.

He and I were not close, to put it mildly.

To put it mildly, we were not quite right in the head.

Mildly, the way she did everything, his wife spoke from across the table.

But to put it mildly, he is not happy with some of us.

There's no love lost between us, to put it mildly, but I've always been able to do business with you.

Wall Street was mildly positive on the order, which had been expected.

Even the kids seemed to find it only mildly interesting.

At first they did look mildly surprised to see me, but I had a plan.

There was some mildly good news yesterday about the economy.

To put it not so mildly, I just felt sick.

A reading of less than 100 means that the experience was at least mildly negative.

Most said they had heard it too many times to be even mildly worried.

"To put it mildly, that has not been the case in recent months."

"It would have been very difficult to get out of," he said mildly.

He was trying to look mildly surprised, but his eyes were giving him away.

He seemed mildly surprised that his mother had told me anything at all.

To put it mildly, he was not in his element.

The firm was, to put it mildly, behind the times.

My father looked at me mildly, amusement in his eyes.

I should have thought it was obvious,' he said mildly.

The legislation will be mildly negative to the industry, he said.

None of these changes would be popular, to put it mildly.

Investors seemed to view the news as mildly positive at best.

"This I will remember all my life," he said mildly.