Meekish

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of meek.

    "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."

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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."

Etymology

From meek + -ish.

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