mild-mannered
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These Yankees—led by mild-mannered slugger Aaron Judge, who was injured these playoffs—are inoffensive, even likable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Sunhyeji is paired with Minho, a 32-year-old mild-mannered civil servant.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Also according to legend, there was a mild-mannered, nurturant, exception: John Chapman, the itinerant Swedenborgian Christian preacher and horticulturalist better known as Johnny Appleseed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
The enigmatic Liz is mild-mannered and quiet, but her ideas are anything but.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
Hull House had become a bastion of progressive thought inhabited by strong-willed young women, “interspersed,” as one visitor put it, “with earnest-faced, self-subordinating and mild-mannered men who slide from room to room apologetically.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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