mousy
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| —adj , mousier, mousiest | |
| 1. | resembling a mouse, esp in having a light brown or greyish hair colour |
| 2. | shy or ineffectual: a mousy little woman |
| 3. | infested with mice |
| mousey or mousey | |
| —adj | |
| 'mousily or mousey | |
| —adv | |
| 'mousiness or mousey | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Her hair is mousy, her clothes are frumpy, and her job as a legal secretary seems to offer all the excitement she can handle.
Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate.
In one, she's a frumpy pushover with mousy hair and a cheating boyfriend.
Its upper plumage is mousy gray, tinged with olive on the back.
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