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When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.
Michael Arad

Meaning of "to put it mildly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TO PUT IT MILDLY

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WHAT DOES TO PUT IT MILDLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of to put it mildly in the English dictionary

The definition of to put it mildly in the dictionary is used to indicate that you are describing something in language that is much less strong, direct, or critical than what you really think.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TO PUT IT MILDLY

to pay cash on the barrelhead
to pay your last respects
to pay your respects to sb
to play favourites
to play for keeps
to play happy families
to play pass-the-parcel
to play the race card
to press
to put it crudely
to put sth to rights
to put the fluence on sb
to put the mocks on
to put years on sb
to put your thinking cap on
to raise unshirted hell
to rights
to rule sb with a high hand
to save one´s life
to say nothing of

WORDS THAT END LIKE TO PUT IT MILDLY

baldly
boldly
childly
coldly
cuckoldly
manifoldly
mildly
old-worldly
otherworldly
overboldly
ribaldly
unwieldly
unworldly
vildly
wildly
worldly

Synonyms and antonyms of to put it mildly in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «to put it mildly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TO PUT IT MILDLY

Find out the translation of to put it mildly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of to put it mildly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «to put it mildly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

说得客气一点
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

por decirlo suavemente
570 millions of speakers

English

to put it mildly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नरम शब्दों में कहें
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بعبارة ملطفة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мягко говоря
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

para dizer o mínimo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এটি হালকাভাবে রাখা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

et c´est un euphémisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Untuk meletakkannya sedikit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

um es milde auszudrücken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

穏やかにそれを置くために
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

약간 을 넣어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kanggo sijine iku mildly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

để đặt nó nhẹ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மென்மையாக அதை வைத்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हळूवारपणे ठेवण्यासाठी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

en hafif deyimiyle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

per usare un eufemismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

delikatnie mówiąc
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

м´яко кажучи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

să -l puneți blând
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

για να το θέσω ήπια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dit sag te stel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

att uttrycka det milt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

for å si det mildt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of to put it mildly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TO PUT IT MILDLY»

The term «to put it mildly» is very widely used and occupies the 16.446 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TO PUT IT MILDLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about to put it mildly

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QUOTES WITH «TO PUT IT MILDLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word to put it mildly.
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Michael Arad
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TO PUT IT MILDLY»

Discover the use of to put it mildly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to to put it mildly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Viewpoint Level 2 Student's Book
0 Strategy plus To put it mildly When you want to be very direct about what you say, you i can use to put it bluntly. 1>))co 4.27 You can use to put it mildly to show that you could say something in a stronger or more extreme way. But to put it ...
Michael McCarthy, Jeanne McCarten, Helen Sandiford, 2013
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Fine-grained Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis: ...
“surprised, to put it mildly” is an explicit mention of a private state, attributed by the Foreign Ministry to itself. It has the source: 〈writer, Foreign Ministry, Foreign Ministry〉. There are two expressive subjective elements in the sentence: “to put it  ...
Theresa Ann Wilson, 2008
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Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama
Mrs W: What do you mean, Amy, to put it mildly, what can you possibly mean, Amy, to put it mildly? Amy: I mean, Mother, that to say I observed nothing . . . strange is indeed to put it mildly. For I observed nothing of any kind, strange or otherwise ...
W. B. Worthen, 2005
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Beyond Minimalism
Amy: No, Mother, I myself did not, to put it mildly. Mrs. W.: What do you mean, Amy, to put it mildly, what can you possibly mean, Amy, to put it mildly? Amy: I mean, Mother, that to say 1 observed nothing . . . strange is indeed to put it mildly.
Enoch Brater
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Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays
Some of the revolutionaries described themselves as neo-pragmatists; unsettling, to put it mildly, given how fruitful I had found the old pragmatists' reflections about the goal and conduct of inquiry. Some of these self-styled neo- pragmatists ...
Susan Haack, 2000
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
one's own interests/... last hintansetzen: etw. hintansetzen * hintanstellen: etw. hintanstellen I wouldn't put it like that sagen: das möchte ich nicht sagen • sagen: das würde ich nicht sagen to put it mildly gesprochen: mild(e) gesprochen: ...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
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Ten Ways of Thinking About Samuel Beckett: The Falsetto of ...
... COIIIPI'OIIllSCCl back-story: Mrs W: You yourself observed nothing . . . strange ? Amy: No, Mother, I myself did not, to put it mildly. Mrs W: What do you mean Amy, to put it mildly, what can you possibly mean, Amy, to put it mildly? Amy: I mean ...
Enoch Brater, 2013
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
... this night, I'll put in practice.” [Mid-1500s] put into words Express verbally, as in Ifind it hard to put myfeelings into words. [Late 1800s] put it mildly Understate, say without exaggeration, as in It's afairly long way to walk, to put it mildly—twenty ...
Christine Ammer, 2013
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Make Sense who May: Essays on Samuel Beckett's Later Works
Amy: No, Mother, I myself did not, to put it mildly. Mrs. W: What do you mean, Amy , to put it mildly. Amy: I mean, Mother, that to say I observed nothing, . . strange is indeed to put it mildly. For I observed nothing of any kind, strange or otherwise.
Robin J. Davis, Lance St. John Butler, 1989
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Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love
Amy: No, Mother, 1 myself did not, to put it mildly. Mrs W: What do you mean, Amy , to put it mildly, what can you possibly mean, Amy, to put it mildly? Amy: 1 mean, Mother, that to say I observed nothing [...] I saw nothing, heard nothing, of any ...
John Keller, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TO PUT IT MILDLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term to put it mildly is used in the context of the following news items.
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The GOP Debate Cutoff Is One Week Away. Here's Who's Getting …
That, to put it mildly, is less than a scientific process: As plenty of pollsters have noted, it's almost akin to drawing straws for the final few spots. Nonetheless ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
2
The 10 Most Habit-Forming Nun Movies In History
I'm not terribly religious, to put it mildly, but my aunt is a nun, and I simply worship her and her cohorts, so whenever I see an actress in a wimple, I melt. In fact ... «Papermag, Jul 15»
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The 7 Most Disturbing (To Put It Mildly) Moments From This Week's …
The entire population of Lakewood was spared on tonight's episode of “Scream” — not one person became the killer's latest victim. But somehow, there was still ... «MTV.com, Jul 15»
4
Facebook security lead wants Adobe to say when it's killing Flash
To put it mildly, Adobe's Flash plugin has fallen from grace in recent years. BlackBerry, Google and other companies once thought it was crucial to the web, but ... «Engadget, Jul 15»
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Uwe Boll disappointed, to put it mildly, in Kickstarter response
German D-movie king Uwe Boll might want to rethink his marketing strategy. Boll recently posted a couple of profanity-laced tirades on YouTube — not a rare ... «SFGate, Jun 15»
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What Will Jon Snow's Next Moves Be on Game of Thrones?
Jon Snow, to put it mildly, was looking a little worse for the wear at the end of Season 5 ofGame of Thrones. But House Slate hosts Marc Faletti and Amanda ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
7
'Disappointing, to put it mildly' - Taoiseach reacts to suspected case …
“It's a disappointment to put it mildly given the high level of integrity and ... they had been fully briefed on all the precautionary measures which were put in place. «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
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A Dramatic Reading Of That Open Letter To The Worst Airplane …
When 24-year-old Lau Mun from Malaysia had, to put it mildly, an unpleasant in-flight experience, she transformed her anger into inspiration and penned an ... «Fast Company, May 15»
9
Gene Weingarten has the trite stuff
Some of them are from elegant writers; some are, to put it mildly, not. Without naming names, Tom occasionally shares with me a particularly egregious ... «Washington Post, May 15»
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Windows 10's phone maps help you find things to do
To put it mildly, Windows Phone's official mapping options are... basic. However, Microsoft is promising a better experience with the mobile Maps app in ... «Engadget, Apr 15»

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