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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mildly bizarre" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is somewhat strange or unusual, but not excessively so.
Example: "The movie had a mildly bizarre plot twist that left the audience both confused and intrigued."
Alternatives: "somewhat odd" or "slightly unusual".
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Walt Dickerson, a vibraphonist who opened a six-day stand at the Village Vanguard on Tuesday night, put on a mildly bizarre set that pointed out exactly how jazz performances work.
For anyone who happened to be in Greenwich Park that lunchtime we must have been a mildly bizarre sight: sometimes walking as a group and sometimes splitting off on random deviations; also running in circles, lying on the ground, collecting piles of twigs, lurking behind trees and taking imaginary pictures of conkers.
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There's the mildly bizarre Lamb Tonic (lamb bones with pickled mustard greens and chilli oil), Black Bird (black chicken, jujubes and Chinese wolfberries – ingredients from a fairytale), and Mala (dried chilli, Sichuan peppercorn, fermented beans and herbs).
The law is, to put it mildly, bizarre.
Wrapped in a bandana and sporting a mildly camp trucker moustache, Rose now resembles a bizarre hybrid of Mickey Rourke, Mick Hucknall and Fu Manchu rather than the baby-faced rock god of yore – but he remains a magnetic frontman.
A week that had careered from the bizarre to the melodramatic to the just plain weird paused for a mildly surreal pit stop Thursday.
A mildly embarrassing aberration.
It turned into a mildly hallucinogenic experience.
He steered a mildly reformist course.
It was a mildly prosperous family.
A mildly obese zombie with asthma?
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