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mildly

 adverb
     
mild‧ly
1 slightly:
The drug is only mildly addictive.
I felt mildly depressed.
2

to put it mildly

spoken used to say that you could use much stronger words to describe something:
Losing two members of staff was unfortunate, to put it mildly.
3 in a gentle way without being angry:
'Of course I don't mind,' she answered mildly.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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