mild-mannered

English

Adjective

mild-mannered (comparative more mild-mannered, superlative most mild-mannered)

1. calm, gentle, moderate and unexcitable in attitude
   • 2023 August 23, Malcolm Holmes tells Paul Stephen, “A mission to develop GCR's legacy”, in RAIL, number 990, page 38:

     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.

Translations

calm, gentle, moderate

• Maori: ngākau māhaki