Mild-mannered

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    behaving in or having a mild or gentle manner wordnet

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"Fadil seemed to be a very mild-mannered man."

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