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Meanings of mousy in English

Spanish
ratonil

Quiet and timid and ineffectual.

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ratonil

Of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse.

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Usage of mousy in English
1
Arabella's mousy friend exited her water closet and moved toward the sink.
The sherlockian
2
They were a team; they were synergy, blonde bombshell and mousy wallflower.
A Long Way from Home
3
You would make a nice mousy wife to a draper or such.
Rakes and radishes
4
It is the same mousy color as mine; but mine is meek.
I capture the castle
5
The most mousy, unkempt of creatures fling them selves in my path...'
The viscount and the virgin
6
Gretchen felt chubby, awkward, mousy, and a multitude of other unattractive adjectives.
Goodbye dolly
7
She was a mousy, inconsequential thing with an excruciatingly bad sartorial taste.
The Capgras Shift
8
Envisioning loud-mouthed Bennett with the meek, mousy Caroline, Libby hid a smile.
In every heartbeat
9
But after a little the small mousy one's curiosity overcame her diffidence.
The Title Market
10
To think I'd once complained about how mousy my old looks were.
Succubi like it hot
11
It was her bedmaid, the mousy one with the limp brown hair.
A clash of kings
12
Forrest is 6ft, slim, with fuzzy facial hair and mousy brown hair.
The Irish Times
13
Sister Gadron was a small mousy woman who rode a blood mount.
The Wyrmling Horde
14
Behind her stood a mousy woman in scholar's robes, a Days.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
15
Rowe gave her a piercing look from beneath mousy blond bangs.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
16
She was the polar opposite of the mousy, expressive Emily Davison.
The sherlockian
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