meek

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

There were some on the terraces who stayed behind to clap the team off, but others showed their displeasure by booing after a meek display left Newcastle 12th in the Premier League.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

They seem nervous and fearful, though most of them are big fellows with beards—they look like meek, scolded, St. Bernard dogs.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

We all are weak—but weaker Hold no one than thou art; Then, as thou growest meeker, Higher will go thy heart.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge

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

The lead Heather is fat-positive, the henchman is genderqueer, and the meekest member is a black lesbian.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2019

Jack appears in just one photograph, in which his son has captured him at his meekest.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018

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