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• r  in a submissive or spiritless manner
  meekly bowed to his wishes
• r  in a humble manner

• Now, at 44, the once mighty entrepreneur sits under house arrest in Vancouver, meekly awaiting word on whether Canada will extradite him home to face charges of smuggling, bribery .
• Rather than standing aside meekly while their hashish was ploughed up as in the past, the farmers this year were determined to protect their lucrative crops.
• To those critics who say the White House press corps has been conditioned to respond meekly to the Bush Administration, such skills might seem to make her a fitting replacement for .

• humbly

News & Articles

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• Stanley Cup Final, Game 1 TV ratings: Triple OT thriller draws best overnight in 16 years
  Despite heading well past midnight on the east coast, people stuck with Game 1 of the 2013 Stanley Cup Final in large numbers. The game -- which Andrew Shaw of Chicago ended in the midst of the third overtime -- drew a 4.8 overnight , the best for a Stanley Cup Final Game 1 since 1997, when the Flyers and Red Wings drew a 5.2 on Fox. It was also up 100 percent from last year's meekly rated ...
  June 13, 2013 - Philly.com
• Arrested 396 times, woman ordered to get help
  An Uptown woman who has been arrested 396 times meekly offered her gratitude and apologies to a Cook County judge Monday as she took a plea deal that will send her to a mental health and substance abuse treatment program.
  June 11, 2013 - ABC 7 Chicago
• Woman Arrested 396 Times Sentenced To Mental Health And Substance Abuse Treatment
  An Uptown woman who has been arrested 396 times meekly offered her gratitude and apologies to a Cook County judge Monday as she took a plea deal that will send her to a mental health and substance abuse treatment program.
  June 11, 2013 - CBS Chicago

Quotes

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• Imran Khan in Independent Online
  I would have insisted on the managers of both teams and match referee coming out to register my protest. I would never have meekly accepted Hair's judgement the way Inzamam did,Imran said.
• Jon Cruddas in Reuters UK
  Our lack of story and radicalism means we appear paralysed by a form of defeatism, of meekly accepting imminent Tory victory,Cruddas said in advance excerpts of a lecture hosted by left-wing thinktank Compass.
• Joan Barfoot in 660 News
  We're so used to being in control of as much as we possibly can be,Barfoot says. "We're used to having a choice, and I think we will not be as meekly or helplessly set aside as we have perhaps imposed on our own elders. We're going to be...