MEEKLY Definition & Meaning

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meekly

[ meek-lee ]

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in a humbly patient or quiet manner:
When addressing a lawyer during oral arguments, the judge often starts meekly with, "Counsel, may I interrupt?"
in an overly submissive or compliant manner:
Not knowing what we were getting into, we meekly agreed.

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Rudakubana ended his rampage meekly, dropping his kitchen knife and surrounding to the police without a word.

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Security Council, additional sanctions are a pipe dream for the foreseeable future, while those on the books already are meekly enforced.

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The driver paused, apparently at a loss for words, and meekly apologized.

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Musk basically wrote his own spending bill, with Trump meekly signing on.

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“I am not a heroine of some old story. I cannot hold the knife,” she says meekly.

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