PUT IT MILDLY Definition & Meaning

put it mildly

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Understate, say without exaggeration, as in It's a fairly long way to walk, to put it mildly—twenty miles or so . [First half of 1900s]

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Halili and Reitsma look nothing like stereotypical church ladies, to put it mildly.

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With egg prices as high as they are, wasting or improperly cooking even one is, to put it mildly, irritating.

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And their leader, Friedrich Merz, is not really a friend of Merkel’s, to put it mildly.

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Rubio does not, to put it mildly, seem to be the Cabinet secretary most likely to make it four years.

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Compare that to England's domestic set-up which has, to put it mildly, been chaotic.

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