- a variation of mousy.
mousey
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The college student’s mousey brown hair, wide eyes and grin are somewhat similar to Chalamet's, but not an exact match.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
When a mousey pregnant woman and her toothy husband offered Sally J Morgan a lift while she was hitch-hiking near Gloucester in 1973, something told her not to get in their car.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2022
Similar mildly philosophical conversations recur throughout the novel: Why is it that a rather mousey, unprepossessing man can seduce women more successfully than a witty and handsome one?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2015
But Anna is pretty spunky, and the mousey Apprentice helps her gain the upper hand, namely Rumpel's dagger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2014
Curled in that mousey chair on the porch at the crumbledown.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
Jennifer and She-Hulk are the same persona dwelling in two different bodies, with her statuesque, green-skinned form gaining her considerably more cachet than her shorter and supposedly mousier self.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2022
She's frumpier than Mum, any day, and mousier.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
“Hush, my dear boy!” she said, in her soothing way, as if she were stroking me down the back like she stroked her tabby Tom—one of the mousiest and most petted of cats.
From She and I, Volume 1 by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
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