Thesaurus / mousy
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
They were kept on plates on sideboards in the sun, or thrust into mousy cupboards.
NOTWITHSTANDINGMARY CHOLMONDELEY
Baby dear, only look at it wid him pitty, pitty eyes, and him tongue out of his mousy!
LORNA DOONER. D. BLACKMORE
But after a little the small mousy one's curiosity overcame her diffidence.
THE TITLE MARKETEMILY POST
After a bit we could make out the doctor's short-tailed, mousy mare and him powdering along at a sort of hand gallop.
ROBBERY UNDER ARMSTHOMAS ALEXANDER BROWNE, AKA ROLF BOLDREWOOD
And those puny, little, mousy women stare and talk about me, because theah's a little meat on mah cahcass.
THY ROCKS AND RILLSROBERT ERNEST GILBERT
"I recognize Adele's fine touch in that expression, 'mousy-brown,'" put in Edith.
MOLLY BROWN'S SENIOR DAYSNELL SPEED
"Nobody will ever want to adopt me, because I've mousy hair and freckles," she said.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY SHORT STORIES, 1909 TO 1922LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
His hair, fighting a stubborn rearguard action against baldness, was an indeterminate mousy gray-brown.
MURDER IN THE GUNROOMHENRY BEAM PIPER
Is there anything more demure and innocent than a pinky girl in a mousy gown?
JEWEL WEEDALICE AMES WINTER
Head and ears were mousy, the neck long, with a hump at its base.
WEST OF THE SUNEDGAR PANGBORN
WORDS RELATED TO MOUSY
- aflutter
- afraid
- aghast
- agitated
- anxious
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- hesitant
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervous
- nervy
- panicky
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- solicitous
- spineless
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- tremulous
- uneasy
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
- abashed
- affrighted
- afraid
- aghast
- alarmed
- anxious
- butterflies
- chicken
- chicken-hearted
- cowed
- dismayed
- fearful
- frozen
- have cold feet
- having kittens
- hung up
- in a cold sweat
- in a panic
- in a sweat
- jellyfish
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- numb
- panicky
- petrified
- pushing the panic button
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared stiff
- shaky
- shivery
- sissy
- spooked
- startled
- terrified
- terror-stricken
- unnerved
- uptight
- yellow
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.