Sentence examples for mildly put from inspiring English sources

"mildly put" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used as a modifier to soften a statement or to indicate that the speaker is downplaying or understating the true severity of something. Example: "The team's performance was lackluster, mildly put."

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He looks mildly put out.

This is, mildly put, not the consensus view.

Prial called it fresh and lively, but Asimov was mildly put off by a bitter quality.

For one thing, its heroine isn't physically or emotionally abused, devastated by personal tragedy or even mildly put upon.

Mr. Romney is "uniquely disqualified," as Mr. Santorum has mildly put it, to make the argument for conservatives that Mr. Obama's health care plan should be repealed.

Mildly put, it was a very shocking experience, exacerbated by what we experienced in our onward flight to Islamabad, where our plane flew into an extreme tropical storm, from which we expected not to escape alive.

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And the results, put mildly, haven't been pretty. .

It was an off-putting performance, to put it mildly.

To put it mildly.

He was, to put it mildly, peeved.

They were correct, to put it mildly.

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