mildly

How To Use mildly In A Sentence

• Second, at the same time, I'm somewhat surprised and mildly appalled that this story hasn't generated a lot of buzz in the blogosphere.
• Yet, going to their house could be mildly upsetting.
• He took to antiquarianism, which is a sort of philtre, driving its votaries mildly insane, and filling them with emotions which, on the whole, are probably more often happy than grievous. Hawthorne and His Circle
• In any case, Pang et al. may have unknowingly found an unstated risk for hospital birth of having a mildly premature baby.
• He fixed her with a mildly reproving glance which diluted quickly into a fond grin.
• So it's mildly surprising to hear the axeman sounding like some gentle bod who works at your local guitar shop. Times, Sunday Times
• The first time he had drunk it he had been violently sick, then had fallen to the ground in a dead faint as the mildly poisonous root exploded through his system.
• He sets all of this action in a kind of unnamed anywhere, a mildly bizarro world of wacky mini-mart customers, humdrum garden apartments and seething ennui.
• The effect on his colleagues would have been only mildly eased by the fact that Laplace was right!
• He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.