mousy

“In one, I go from a mousy housewife to a road warrior, and the other I go from a cookie-making mom to an assassin,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

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

Both the body of a vessel and its glaze changed color when fired; a vessel that went into the kiln a dull mousy color emerged a remarkable translucent green.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

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