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

Much of the criticism that stemmed from Scotland's meek Euro 2024 showings arose from Clarke's reluctance to move away from a back-five formation.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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

By transforming Parks into a meek, accidental activist whose only deficit was physical fatigue, the dominant cultural narrative effectively stripped her of her radicalism.

From Salon ● May 20, 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

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

Even Jeb Bush, the stern patrician of the Republican race, has shown a growing fondness for some gentler four-letter words, at times adding them to prepared remarks that had called for something meeker.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2015

If he is "B. J." about it, he is bullied the more; if he shows fight, he has all he wants, and is made meeker still.

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Upton Sinclair

“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

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

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2019

It had long seemed a curious contradiction to Palmer, that among the three kids rollicking on the field, Henry was the tallest yet also the meekest.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli