The phrase "a mild slight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor or subtle insult or offense that is not very serious.
Example: "Although it was just a mild slight, she couldn't help but feel hurt by his comment."
Alternatives: "a minor insult" or "a subtle offense".
Not Nige: Leicester propped up the table from September through to March, and nobody really said something other than "Cambiasso was a good if unlikely signing, wasn't he?" That's the dread that Pearson inspires: journalists are a touchy bunch and any mild slight against them tends to send them into a panic, as though Leicestershire had suddenly become Pyongyang.
Figure 1 shows the mean longitudinal profile of data generated under mild (slight curvature) and gross (large curvature) misspecification.
To measure dryness/scaling, the facial skin of the subjects was evaluated at baseline and at subsequent visits using the ordinal scales as follows: 0 = None: Smooth, no evidence of dryness; 1 = Mild: Slight dry skin; powdery, ash appearance; 2 = Moderate: Uplifting cell layers; 3 = Moderate to Severe: Peeling, flaking cell layers; 4 = Severe: Severe flaking and peeling; possible fissures.
Taste reactivity involves defining the reactions precisely – for example, lip-licking would be defined as "a mild rhythmic smacking, slight protrusions of the tongue, a relaxed expression accompanied sometimes by a slight upturn of the corners of the mouth" – and then looking for this same expression in other species.
And because its side effects are rarely worse than a mild headache or slight nausea, experts fear that it has rapidly become a tempting pick-me-up to a nation that battles sleep with more than 100 million cups of coffee a day.
Looking only at grafts surviving over 1 year and after considering potential confounders there was a mild risk association (slight increase in graft-loss rate) for recent-era transplants compared with those in 1987–1989.
It's the digital equivalent of a mild snub or social slight — very slight, given it's not public and is doled out to someone you don't yet have any strong ties to.
For it to work properly you need a mild Welsh inflection, a slight overweighting of the unstressed second syllable.
The neurological examination at admission revealed a mild depression and a slight cognitive deficit with a Minimental State Examination Score (MMSE) of 27/30.
However, as the reverberation is increased to a mild 128 ms, a slight performance gap between the two soft masking techniques surfaces with the FCM leading by approximately 2 dB.
