Sentence examples for mildly excessive from inspiring English sources
The arrest and restraints were a move that many described as, to put it mildly, excessive.
But to make the same mistake 38 times in the coverage of one story seems, to put it mildly, somewhat excessive.
If the wait does seem excessive, you might mildly comment the next day, saying, "That was quite the party you had last night". Most likely your neighbor--who knows, after all, that he is the new kid on the block--will respond apologetically.
Then came a few fights where his inside game went from mildly rule-breaking to a bit excessive, culminating in the eyesore foulfest against Sakio Bika, mutual as it was.
I worked at a high stakes litigation boutique where our first-year pay was the highest in the country and the internal office demands associated with that pay was excessive (to put it mildly).
The characteristics of "hypernovae" may be the result of orientation effects in a mildly inhomogeneous set of progenitors, rather than requiring an excessive total energy or luminosity.
I am not at all suggesting that the number of references should be inflated artificially but this brevity is excessive and does not benefit the reader (to put it mildly).
Mildly unenthusiastically.
