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• s  quiet and timid and ineffectual
• a  infested with mice
• s  of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse
  a mousy brownish-grey color
  mousy hair

• There's nothing mousy about Stewart.
• Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mhe), a mousy Stasi captain, plants bugs in the home of chic playwright Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland .
• She's evolved from a mousy former physicist into a formidable political panther who carefully plans and ruthlessly executes her strikes.

• mousey
• mouse-colored
• mouselike

News & Articles

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• Watch Peggy Olson Break Through the Glass Ceiling
  Of all the characters we've enjoyed these past six seasons of Mad Men, we've really rooted for Peggy Olson. In early episodes, it was hard not to find her mousy voice irritating, but she's now one of the show's most fearless, vocal personalities. In last week's episode, she barged into Don's ... More »
  June 21, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Paris Hilton in TheCelebrityCafe.com
  I'd be more than happy to date William- so long as he ditches the mousy girlfriend,Paris told New!
• Jenna Fischer in Philadelphia Daily News
  I just assumed that Edith was the one for me because she was the mousy put-upon girl, so I prepared Edith and they asked me if I would try reading Darlene,Fischer said.
• Anamaria Marinca in Telegraph.co.uk
  But, as Marinca says, she turns out to be, "a woman who uses mousy looks as a camouflage in a deadly battle of power".