English-French translations for mild

• doux
  Ces trois arguments sont donc plats et simplement populistes, et j'utilise un doux euphémisme. These three arguments are therefore purely and simply populist, to put it mildly.
  L'expérience nous a appris que les sanctions actuelles en cas d'infraction aux législations environnementales européennes et nationales ne sont pas suffisantes et c'est un doux euphémisme. Experience has taught us that the present sanctions for infringements of European and national environmental legislation are inadequate, to put it mildly.
• douce
• léger
  Je suis aussi partisan d'une interdiction sur les messages trompeurs tels que "mild" et "léger". I also support a ban on misleading messages, such as 'mild' and 'light' .
  Plutôt que d’accepter un léger reproche, l’establishment de l’UE a mis les bouchées doubles et a cajolé et menacé les différents signataires pour tenter d’empêcher la motion de voir le jour. Rather than accepting a mild rebuke, the EU establishment went into overdrive, cajoling and threatening the various signatories in an attempt to prevent the motion from seeing the light of day.

Definition of mild

• Gentle and not easily angered
• Of only moderate severity; not strict
• Not overly felt or seriously intended
• Not serious or dangerous
• Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected
• Acting gently and without causing harm
• Not sharp or bitter; not strong in flavor
• A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale

Examples

• a mild man
• He received a mild sentence
• a mild day
• mild weather
• a mild anaesthetic
• a mild curry

Related words

• mildew
• mildly
• mildness
• milder
• Mildred
• milden
• unmildewed
• Mildenhall
• emildine