mousy
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Trying to dismiss them, Creon asks in a mousy voice, “Do I need to . . . tip you?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
She becomes an object of fascination for Thomasin McKenzie’s mousy Eileen when she glides into the dreary juvenile detention center where they both work one winter, in Massachusetts 1964.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2024
These microbes are known to contaminate white wine, causing spoilage and unpleasant odors, including nail polish remover, geranium and "mousy" odors.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
Thorp beautifully underplays her character’s toxic absurdities, landing somewhere between Carol, the tragic heroine of Todd Haynes’s “Safe,” and Penelope, Kristen Wiig’s mousy “Saturday Night Live” character who is so much better than you.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
But she pulled on her mousy brown wig anyway.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
Jennifer and She-Hulk are the same persona dwelling in two different bodies, with her statuesque, green-skinned form gaining her considerably more cachet than her shorter and supposedly mousier self.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2022
She's frumpier than Mum, any day, and mousier.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
“Hush, my dear boy!” she said, in her soothing way, as if she were stroking me down the back like she stroked her tabby Tom—one of the mousiest and most petted of cats.
From She and I, Volume 1 by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
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