(superl.) Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive.
(superl.) Evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face.
(v. t.) Alt. of Meeken
Example Sentences:
(1) Meek will play an instrumental role in the selection of a Project Canvas chief executive.
(2) Americano by James Meek At home, first thing, I prepare my secret vice.
(3) Meek, the former chief policy partner at Ofcom who MediaGuardian.co.uk revealed was joining the venture in July , is expected to announce Halton's appointment today.
(4) Even the RNC chair, Reince Priebus, who has been loth to alienate the mercurial Trump, weighed in meekly.
(5) The former England captain was widely blamed for the LA Galaxy’s disappointing season last term, as Bruce Arena’s side put up a meek defence of MLS Cup.
(6) If that was partially to intimidate the visitors, O’Neill’s teamsheet, at least, did not betray any meekness: the Irish manager’s decision to include Wes Hoolahan, whose only previous away start in the campaign had been in the inevitable win over Gibraltar, suggested a degree of boldness.
(7) It rarely is different.” I meekly say: “You may be right.
(8) Instead, vilify and humiliate anybody who challenges – however meekly – the status quo.
(9) Meek also revealed YouView was in "very early stage discussions" with major US studios over potentially providing content or full channels on the service.
(10) The straight lines of the Roman remains stood in contrast to meek and ugly village houses.
(11) Astrologers posit that babies born under each sign are bestowed with unique personality traits – rat-year babies are cautious, dragon babies resilient, dog babies intelligent, and sheep babies are considered meek.
(12) But there is little evidence that they are about to fade away meekly.
(13) Fouad asked with meek and apologetic smile if he could have our phones.
(14) However, the measure to help combined heat and power generation – an efficient way of cutting carbon emissions by reusing the heat from electricity generation – was not as green as it appeared, warned Graham Meeks, director of the Combined Heat and Power Association.
(15) "They want me to come back later," she says meekly.
(16) Russia champions the sovereignty of nations and then acts as if a neighbour’s borders do not exist.” She then meekly voted with everyone else in favour of the resolution.
(17) Kris Meeke of Northern Ireland had looked set for a challenge but skidded into a ditch on Sunday morning, which damaged the tyres on his Citroën DS3 and he slipped to sixth place.
(18) James Meek Guardian journalist and writer James Meek at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008 Photograph: Murdo Macleod JM Coetzee calls Tolstoy the exemplary master of authority, by which he means, I think, that he makes us trust what he tells us.
(19) He's the head of a crew of rappers including Ross, Meek Mill and Wale, named Maybach Music Group after Mercedes's notoriously expensive car, the man who likes to be called "the Boss" – pronounced "Bawse" – and the rapper who since his 2006 breakthrough hit Hustlin' has used his signature bellicose baritone to tell stories of drug dealing and murder that make Tony Montana sound like Alfie Moon.
(20) In this world, wives are meek-but-cheerful servants (Asda mum doesn't even get a proper chair to sit on during Christmas lunch; she has to perch at the side like a terrier begging for scraps) while their husbands are lazy, oblivious arseholes.
Peek
Definition:
(v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(2) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
(3) To check the Hub while in an app, you use your thumb to swipe the screen from left to right, and can "peek" at the Hub's inbox.
(4) Ewen takes a peek at the Republican challenger's strategy: He will list damning statistics showing the extent to which Americans have become dependent on the federal government, from food stamps to unemployment benefits.
(5) Sure, it's bad to peek at your data but data peeking alone probably isn't going to produce nine different false positives.
(6) Oscar-winner Michael Moore dives right into hostile territory with his daring and hilarious one-man show, deep in the heart of TrumpLand in the weeks before the 2016 election.” The news broke on Twitter with Moore sharing the following tweet on Monday: Michael Moore (@MMFlint) Hey NYC- Who wants a peek @ what I've been up 2?
(7) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
(8) Journalists who have never even peeked into the IPCC report are now outraged that one wrong number appears on page 493 of Volume 2.
(9) When Dunham’s own memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” , was published this autumn, it was Gould who defended her (on Salon.com ) from rabid right-wing critics who characterised Dunham as a child molester for confessing to peeking at her sister’s vagina when she was seven.
(10) A peek at the source code of the now-blank site contains a hint of a future acquisition, with an empty space labelled “put announce for mtgox acq here”.
(11) Shaltai-Boltai and the missing jigsaw pieces Alexander said he was in Asia at the time, but travelled to Estonia within the past week, having first paid a trusted contact to peek into Interpol’s systems and check Russia had not yet put him on the wanted list.
(12) What in fact happened, Edward Jr said in the same letter, was that “as I sat on my bed, tears of rage flowing, remembering my childhood my anger kept building and building, and I went to my car, got the 9mm, and walked to his room, peeked in, and he was asleep.
(13) But a peek behind its algorithmic curtains suggests what it does know might be wrong.
(14) We’ll be giving you a peek behind the curtain of what makes the news and take stock of what’s gone on locally, nationally and globally.
(15) Have a peek will you … 7.46pm GMT I've not heard anything more on the Arsenal deal for Malaga's Nacho Monreal, but I presume numbers are being tapped into computers, sweaty suits are running around and papers are being shuffled vigorously.
(16) Traditionally Apple releases a sneak peek into its new software for both its Mac computers and its iPhone and iPad at WWDC each year.
(17) Still, there are pockets of cuteness to be found: tiny yuru-kyara charms dangling off backpacks or peeking from posters or construction barriers in the form of baby ducks.
(18) You can see evidence of these new lands on the Delta's fringes; mile upon mile of agri-business-owned fields peeking out behind the advertising billboards of the Cairo-Alexandria desert road.
(19) Julian Savulescu , professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, said: "Venter is creaking open the most profound door in humanity's history, potentially peeking into its destiny.
(20) Game of Throne fans are counting the days until the start of series four and to help the wait go faster, we've got a 15-minute sneak peek.