meek

A side that has produced some of the sport's most fearsome bowlers were also meek with the ball and poor in the field.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Bangs were for the meek, the insecure, those with something to hide — or alternatively those going through some kind of life crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Mr. Hayward isn’t trying to impress Lizzie Bennet; he’s communing with Mary, in all of her meek and geeky glory.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

As imagined by director Travis Knight—best known for another toys-to-screen saga, 2018’s “Transformers” sequel “Bumblebee”—and a battalion of screenwriters, the new He-Man, lost prince from the planet Eternia, is a meek cubicle dweller named Adam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

My mother was named Hudis and she was the exact opposite of him, gentle and meek.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

First, riverbank lupine snuck into the garden on a mislabeled seed package, swamping meeker plants.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

But the evening quickly becomes awkward, as the incorrigible alpha male Lucas teases and pokes at the meeker Adam, making unreasonable demands on him and Eva until Adam finally breaks and spills some embarrassing secrets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

The tracks belonged to a smaller, meeker herbivore no taller than a person, not a ferocious giant carnivore, scientists said in a paper published Thursday in the journal Historical Biology.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Ron is a gigantic goof who either doesn't read body language well or ignores it entirely, overpowering the smaller, meeker Marcus with his gigantic personality and boundless acts of kindness.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021

She looks smaller than usual in her heavy black dress and is meeker than usual on an occasion of this kind.

From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker

Last are the mammals, from the mightiest Javan rhinoceros to the meekest mountain pygmy possum.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

“In his interactions with the loftiest of public officials or the meekest of private figures, he hoped and sought to get at the truth,” Chris Haley said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2021

The 2020 high school football season has ended in West Virginia with the meekest of whimpers.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2020

I witnessed her open her eyes and says in the meekest whisper of a voice: “I want to get off this merry-go-round. I want to go home.”

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2020

And signed: ‘Thy everloving father, in this world and the next, author of thy being and guardian of thy virtue; in meekest love, Hugh Crain.’

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson