"mild-mannered" meaning in English

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      "form": "most mild-mannered",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2023 August 23, Malcolm Holmes tells Paul Stephen, “A mission to develop GCR's legacy”, in RAIL, number 990, page 38:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "calm, gentle, moderate and unexcitable in attitude"
      ],
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          "calm"
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        [
          "gentle",
          "gentle"
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        [
          "moderate",
          "moderate"
        ],
        [
          "unexcitable",
          "unexcitable"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "calm, gentle, moderate",
          "word": "ngākau māhaki"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mild-mannered"
}

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      "form": "more mild-mannered",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most mild-mannered",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 August 23, Malcolm Holmes tells Paul Stephen, “A mission to develop GCR's legacy”, in RAIL, number 990, page 38:",
          "text": "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.",
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      ],
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          "gentle"
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          "moderate"
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          "unexcitable",
          "unexcitable"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "calm, gentle, moderate",
      "word": "ngākau māhaki"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mild-mannered"
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