Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Somewhat
mild
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word mildish.
Examples
-
Chantix - works, at least, works for everyone I've met ... side effects are mildish - some VERY strange dreams, but nothing too far out.
unknown title 2009
-
Put a large mildish dried New Mexican chili pepper in hot water to soak for an hour.
Toast: Lindy 2006
-
Put a large mildish dried New Mexican chili pepper in hot water to soak for an hour.
Fideos or Something Like Them, With Avocado and Pickled Onions Lindy 2006
-
Some mildish naughty language for those who are super-sensitive to such things.
Mir's Latest List of Linky Goodness Mirtika 2006
-
Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
-
Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
-
If where you live has mildish winters - Oregon, say, or California or the South - you can grow the kind of kiwifruit your mom or dad buys at the grocery store.
unknown title 2009
-
I’m simply saying that the tendency to create stereotypes — even in a mildish, innocent way of moderates — seems to be making many see this as some kind of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, when it may be simply what it is … a man resigning after it has become clear that he has become the scapegoat (rightly or wrongly).
-
And besides, don't you remember that I foretold a mildish winter? "
The Land of Promise D. Torbett
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.