"mildly drunk" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a person who has consumed a small amount of alcohol, particularly in a casual setting, such as a party. For example, "Everyone at the party was mildly drunk, but they still managed to have an enjoyable evening."
But there is a rhyme and reason to everything – your acoustic troubador might be the right act to follow the gruesome noiseniks, and that grizzled veteran might, despite having been held in contempt for decades, have exactly the right songs for a mildly drunk late-afternoon audience to sing along to.
You just stand there, marveling at how proud Mildly Drunk Guy is of his newfound grasp on Shit That Matters.
Drake posted your fucking photo," my friend, who called me while mildly drunk, yelled into my ear.
Still mildly drunk and not alert enough to be thinking clearly, we piled into Bazza's unregistered Mitsubishi Mirage so we could make it up to the forest by dawn.
He often played a confused, annoyed, and mildly sarcastic drunk.
And wasn't it Abraham Lincoln who, on receiving a complaint that Ulysees Grant, his best general, was a drunk, mildly asked what type of whiskey Grant drank so he could buy some for his other generals?
Mrs. Watson, whose attention often wandered, remarked mildly that the drunks had made her miss her last two violin lessons.
If you're lucky, you discover a new band that doesn't suck, you get a little lightheaded from being drunk and mildly dehydrated, and if you're reeeeally lucky you get a beejer (or fingerblasted, if you're a lady) behind a mist tent sponsored by some tragic soda company.
If you're lucky, you discover a new band that doesn't suck, you get a little lightheaded from being drunk and mildly dehydrated, and if you're reeeeally lucky you get a beejer (or fingerblasted, if you're a lady) behind a Mountain Dew-sponsored mist tent.
If you're lucky, you discover a new band that doesn't totally suck, you get a little lightheaded from being drunk and mildly dehydrated, and if you're reeeeally lucky, you get a beejer (or fingerblasted, if you're a lady) behind a mist tent sponsored by some tragic soda company.
I think it somehow liberated one.' He maintains that he never turned nasty when drunk: 'I was sometimes mildly louche, but not aggressive, no.
