meekly

Instead, black models are required to remain meekly, silently off stage, waiting for a turn that may never come.

Bob Cratchit, the clerk who is the father of Tiny Tim and who meekly serves Scrooge, is paid fifteen shillings a week.

Devastated and utterly embarrassed, I meekly raised my hand.

Nothing edifies Davis in the film apart from his music, but even that is conveyed meekly.

Surely the party can tolerate a few midlevel leaders, especially younger ones, meekly supporting the policy.

A pimply-faced office boy elbowed him out of it and the man turned away meekly.

Tom meekly did as he was bid, but in his heart there raged the passions of a demon, and he swore Mark Grafton should die.

It made me smile to remember how mature Patsy had been when I meekly ran her errands and gladly wore her yoke in the old days.

I call the Most High to witness—she submitted to all my demands meekly, as though she were no eaglet, but a tethered lamb!

For the rest he studied early and late, and experienced the doubtful glory, and accepted meekly the reproach, of being a grind.