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or mousey
mousier; mousiest
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Examples of mousy in a Sentence
The movie is a fantasy about a mousy housewife who is transformed into a glamorous star.
a mousy little girl who hid behind her mother the entire time we were there
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But Denise’s story is effectively just thrown aside as the focus moves on to Denise’s supposedly mousy yet horny neighbor Nicole (Sanda Codreanu).
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Anne Hathaway has never been better than in William Oldroyd's dark erotic thriller, playing a bewitching prison psychologist whose mousy colleague (Thomasin McKenzie) falls under her spell.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2023
Hailan Hu, a neuroscientist at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine, wanted to know what would happen in the brains of these mousy muckety-mucks when their pecking order was upended.
—Byemily Underwood, science.org, 27 Jan. 2023
At 24, Eileen is a mousy shadow, a pale nonentity going through the motions of a life in circa-1964 Massachusetts.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Anne Hathaway has never been better than in William Oldroyd's dark erotic thriller, playing a bewitching prison psychologist whose mousy colleague (Thomasin McKenzie) falls under her spell.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2023
Hailan Hu, a neuroscientist at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine, wanted to know what would happen in the brains of these mousy muckety-mucks when their pecking order was upended.
—Byemily Underwood, science.org, 27 Jan. 2023
At 24, Eileen is a mousy shadow, a pale nonentity going through the motions of a life in circa-1964 Massachusetts.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
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“Mousy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mousy. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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mousy
adjective
mousier; mousiest
: of, relating to, or resembling a mouse: as
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: dull in color : drab
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