meek

Moore plays Mona, a meek, thoroughly unseen wife and mother who impulsively decides to audition for a community theater musical despite having no experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Those with tickets for Saturday must have thought the prospect of seeing any play was remote when Pakistan offered a meek surrender on day one.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

These are from the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus blesses the poor, the meek and the peacemakers, and then calls on his followers to turn the other cheek and love their enemies.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 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

My mother was named Hudis and she was the exact opposite of him, gentle and meek.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

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

It is a much meeker role — and exactly the right fit for Canada.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2015

Perhaps her brow grew somewhat meeker and her smile less bright as the year rolled on.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

“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

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