Quiet and timid and ineffectual.
Of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse.
1 No doubt you have noticed the mousey odour in this room.
2 With two little mousey feet and ten little mousey toes.
3 But the terrified mousey thing you're doing right now will bug the shit out of me.
4 Go, mousey , and look out about getting overheated.
5 Cavendish was a small, rather mousey executive.
6 And there's mousey Claire - Elisabeth Moss is in everything these days - who's the classic battered wife.
7 It belied their colouring, which was dun and which, though of the same family, is distinct from mousey .
8 She would have to take to those mousey colours that did not suit her, and wear a veil.
9 Her hair had been spray-dyed a mousey gray, and they'd added some crow'sfeet, laugh lines, and liver spots.
10 Jones doesn't help matters in the early going by mostly offering up meek, mousey answers to Black's constant questioning.
11 She stuck her snubby nose up in the air and said it seemed as if the room smelled mousey .
12 Besides, " mousey " colours didn't really suit her.
14 It felt like a psychology session where I could vent out all my stress and anxiety experienced through mousey brown roots.
15 Lisa is 5 ft 2 in, of thin build, with mousey brown hair and brown eyes.
16 So when she lost her hair after embarking on chemotherapy last month she was never going to opt for a mousey - brown wig.
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