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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Then, the top of the order couldn’t get the ball out of the infield in the sixth inning, meekly disappearing on 13 pitches.

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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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