meekish

comparative more meekish · superlative most meekish

1. Synonym of meek.

   Akorth and Fulton exchanged a meekish glance.

   2013, Morgan Rice, A Cry of Honor

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   He came in afterwards, a meekish, mildish sort of person, who looked as if all the cheerfulness of existence had been washed out of him by the weak tea of Bloomsbury and Kensington afternoons, and the lemonade and claret of higher cult, the millinery modish literary soirées.

   1890 December 17, “Chance Acquaintances”, in Judy: the London Serio-Comic Journal, page 291

   You were left with only the word, the delightful playword itself, the sonic prankishness of the two syllabic pops and the closing click encasing those peepingly meekish, unobtrusively shlemielish twin vowels.

   1993, Philip Roth, Operation Shylock

   Synonyms: meek