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Meanings of mousey in English
Of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse.
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Examples for "mouselike"
Examples for "mouselike"
1
The little voices of the hermitage were giving their mouselike welcome.
2
I know the fine gentleman, and have had experience of his mouselike nature.
3
A group of small, mouselike creatures crawled out, sniffing the air.
4
The tiny figure which had accidentally dislodged the pebble retreated mouselike into shadow.
5
Not a girl at all but a woman with a wrinkled mouselike face.
1
The horses needed the rest, but the mouse-colored mule wore an impatient expression.
2
The quiet man astride looked mouse-colored upon such a splendid charger.
3
A soiled linen cap covered a mop of streaky hair, mouse-colored and unkempt.
4
There were very few mules like unto his quondam mouse-colored mount.
5
They were two big mouse-colored grayhounds, with tails like rats and protruding ribs.
Usage of mousey in English
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.
13
Had a mousey smell?
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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