Thesaurus / mousy
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One would be telling stories, some were mousy and quiet, one would be holding on to the big aluminum olla of spaghetti.
SUN, SAND, AND SPAGHETTIMIKE DIAGOJULY 22, 2021EATERThey were kept on plates on sideboards in the sun, or thrust into mousy cupboards.
NOTWITHSTANDINGMARY CHOLMONDELEYBaby dear, only look at it wid him pitty, pitty eyes, and him tongue out of his mousy!
LORNA DOONER. D. BLACKMOREBut after a little the small mousy one's curiosity overcame her diffidence.
THE TITLE MARKETEMILY POSTAfter 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 BOLDREWOODAnd 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 MONTGOMERYHis hair, fighting a stubborn rearguard action against baldness, was an indeterminate mousy gray-brown.
MURDER IN THE GUNROOMHENRY BEAM PIPERIs there anything more demure and innocent than a pinky girl in a mousy gown?
JEWEL WEEDALICE AMES WINTERWORDS RELATED TO MOUSY
- bashful
- buttoned-up
- checked
- clammed up
- close
- closed-up
- closemouthed
- curbed
- dumb
- dummied up
- faint
- hush
- hushed
- iced
- inarticulate
- incoherent
- inconversable
- indistinct
- inhibited
- laconic
- mousy
- mum
- mute
- muted
- noiseless
- nonvocal
- not talkative
- reserved
- restrained
- reticent
- shy
- silentious
- soundless
- still
- struck dumb
- taciturn
- tongue-tied
- unclear
- uncommunicative
- unheard
- unsociable
- unspeaking
- voiceless
- wordless
- zipped
- Milquetoast
- afraid
- ambivalent
- apprehensive
- badgered
- bashful
- browbeaten
- bullied
- capricious
- cowardly
- cowed
- cowering
- coy
- daunted
- demure
- diffident
- fainthearted
- fearful
- feeble
- frightened
- gentle
- having cold feet
- humble
- intimidated
- irresolute
- modest
- mousy
- nervous
- pusillanimous
- retiring
- shaky
- shrinking
- soft
- spineless
- spiritless
- submissive
- timorous
- trembling
- unassertive
- unassured
- unnerved
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- yellow
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