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mild-mannered

mild-mannered adjective: calm, gentle, moderate and unexcitable in attitude or disposition.

Adjective

mild-mannered (comparative more mild-mannered, superlative most mild-mannered)

  1. Calm, gentle, moderate and unexcitable in attitude or disposition.
    • That's because, having left behind his senior position on the national network at the West Midlands Rail Executive in mid-March […], the energetic but mild-mannered Holmes has brought a distinctly forward-looking agenda to the Leicestershire heritage operation he now leads.2023 August 23, Malcolm Holmes tells Paul Stephen, “A mission to develop GCR's legacy”, in RAIL, number 990, page 38

Forms of mild-mannered

comparativemore mild-mannered
superlativemost mild-mannered

Questions about mild-mannered

What does mild-mannered mean?
Mild-mannered means calm, gentle, moderate and unexcitable in attitude or disposition.
What part of speech is mild-mannered?
Mild-mannered is an adjective.

Words near mild-mannered in the dictionary

  1. mild and bitters
  2. mild as milk
  3. mild sauce
  4. mild steel
  5. mild steels
  6. mild-mannered
  7. milde
  8. milden
  9. mildened
  10. Mildenhall
  11. Mildenhalls

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