(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.
Sheepish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to sheep.
(a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.
Example Sentences:
(1) Normally I'm really interesting to talk to but I just can't right now," one employee, drinking an ale, smiled sheepishly.
(2) A startled man got out of the passenger seat, then a sheepish looking woman in a cocktail dress and holding a half-smoked cigarette emerged, smoothing her hair.
(3) On the BBC, Jingo Boy and Mark Lawrenson are debating whether a slightly sheepish looking Jorge Larrionda is trying to level things up as best he could.
(4) A burning desire to get the hell out of this boring town where nothing ever happens – even if only to return sheepishly in middle age, with your kids, to somewhere that nothing ever happens – is the rocket fuel propelling millions of teenagers into bigger and better lives than previous generations experienced.
(5) My team doesn’t do great on diversity,” Allen admits sheepishly.
(6) That’s certainly what the membership would feel.” Regarding the “two out of 10” score, however, he is more sheepish.
(7) He looks sheepish and laughs: “Look, were one to say Ruskin’s entire view were beside the point, it would be outrageous – ludicrous.
(8) By 1996, rumours of a relationship had been confirmed: paparazzi shots of here a shy kiss, there some sheepish hand-holding.
(9) I would describe her as … sheepish.” He later said: “Ms Cafferkey got through the screening area with what I would call as deception.” After Cafferkey tested positive for Ebola, Nick Gent, a doctor and deputy dead of PHE’s emergency response department, was drafted in to assess the efficacy of the screening process.
(10) With e-cigs, it seems you haven't "really quit", even if you've really quit tobacco, the very substance that sheepish smokers yearn to eschew.
(11) But it has just had to – sheepishly, you’d imagine – admit that the personal details of up to 4 million federal employees have been compromised.
(12) She rather sheepishly admits that she has just set one up, but when I ask her when she did so she says: "Today, or yesterday."
(13) "I was working on my own film, too, but it never worked out," he says sheepishly.
(14) I once got offered a pay rise only to be called back in a couple of days later and told, a little sheepishly, that actually, terribly sorry, it wasn’t going to be possible.
(15) This feeling of sheepishness is unavoidable: we gave the crisis a human face because without one it would have been even more incomprehensible, alienating and frightening than it already was.
(16) In the live TV announcement, he was presented with a letter his 15-year-old self wrote to the Radio Times praising its Doctor Who coverage, which Capaldi sheepishly referred to as "the full anorak".
(17) But the pension funds have had the last laugh, with Webb's sheepish statement that, contrary to his promise, "any cap on charges will not be introduced before April 2015".
(18) We had all zoned out a bit at the end of a long ceremony, but woke up with a start when La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz announced that it was a mistake, that Moonlight has won, and said what must for him have been sickening words: “This is not a joke.” Don't let that Oscars blunder overshadow Moonlight's monumental achievement Read more After that brush with the cockup-iceberg, our awards-season flagship Titanic was to limp very sheepishly into port.
(19) As the first week came to an end, I asked when I would have my expenses reimbursed (it had clearly stated on the internship advertisement that expenses would be paid) and was sheepishly informed by his assistant that they didn't pay expenses.
(20) As the scorecards were read, the boos started with the first verdict against Pacquiao and didn't let up through the post fight interviews with a visibly sheepish Bradley.