meek
/mik/ adjective C1- Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
- Submissive, dispirited, cowed.
Comparative meeker · Superlative meekest
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“I am Dorothy, the Small and Meek.
Thomas Lynde--a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”--was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
This was no meek penitent such as it behooved her to take into the presence of the offended Mrs.
“Dear me!” said Holmes, “he seems a quiet, meek-mannered man enough, but I dare say that there was a lurking devil in his eyes.
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