meek

Moore plays Mona, a meek, thoroughly unseen wife and mother who impulsively decides to audition for a community theater musical despite having no experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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

Few animated movies are willing to venture beyond meek, kid-friendly entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

When Mama raises her eyes up to him they are so cold there isn’t even any Mama home inside there, and she says, “Nathan Price, the meek shall inherit. You wait and see.”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

After Jane Cleveland’s husband is installed as vicar in a village church, Jane is introduced to a Miss Doggett, a robust woman who bosses around the meeker parishioners.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022

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

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

Poor Mr. Cole, priestlike in his tippet, cuts a meeker figure than another Merstham rector, James Samborne.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

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