The phrase "mildly confusing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is slightly unclear or puzzling, but not to the point of causing major confusion. It is often used to soften the impact of a potentially confusing statement. Example: "The instructions for setting up the new software were mildly confusing, but I was able to figure it out with a little bit of patience."
They are, to put it mildly, confusing.
SINCE nobody, and certainly not Sonia Gandhi herself, imagined the Congress party would win India's election, it is hardly surprising that the past week has been, to put it mildly, confusing.
Mark Ronson, the producer who is responsible for much of the mildly confusing neo-soul genre, has called Budos Band his favorite live act.
The worst thing schools can do is eliminate arts programs, Mr. Daley said, his one mildly confusing declaration since he is lord of a system where art and music are often first cut during a budget crises.
There's a whole wide world of vaginal euphemisms out there, ranging from the mildly confusing ("box" -- why?) to the truly horrifying ("meat flaps," anyone?).
It was a mildly confusing record because a) we couldn't figure out who it was by and b) it was actually approaching OK.
I suddenly missed my grandmothers — ninety-nine-year-old Muriel, feisty and legally blind, whose touch on my arm Stritch's reminded me of, and eighty-nine-year-old Corinne, who had spent a couple years being mildly confused, like this, before progressing somewhere far beyond confusion.
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"What are you doing?" Jennifer asks, mildly confused.
Reading it, I spend the first 200 pages or so mildly confused.
Overnight, she stopped eating, went from mildly confused to disoriented, and was unable to urinate.
