Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a mouse (rodent); as, a mouselike squeak, mouselike timidity.
  • adverb postpositive In a mouselike way

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  • adjective of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse

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Examples

  • Tamerah Hunt, a senior at Oxon Hill High School, started last summer devising an experiment that would break new ground in the behavior of two types of vole, a shy, mouselike creature.

    National Zoo reopens, but it's far from business as usual 2011

  • Inside Toynton Grange she could still hear distant sounds; brisk footsteps passing down a passage; the quiet closing of a door; the squeak of unoiled wheels as someone moved a hoist or a wheel-chair; the mouselike scrabbling sounds from next door as Grace Willison moved restlessly in her bed; a sudden blare of music, instantly muted, as someone opened and shut the sitting room door.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • In the small, mouselike prairie voles that the researchers studied, the vasopressin seems to work on dopamine systems, which results in the male vole being very solicitous of his mate.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Or even a 'bizarrely high-pitched querulous mouselike squeak.'

    Archive 2009-07-01 juliette 2009

  • In the small, mouselike prairie voles that the researchers studied, the vasopressin seems to work on dopamine systems, which results in the male vole being very solicitous of his mate.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Instead of the mouselike boy Edoran had expected, he was a hulking youth of eighteen, taller than most men, his arms thick with muscle.

    Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009

  • Or even a 'bizarrely high-pitched querulous mouselike squeak.'

    University Challenged juliette 2009

  • Robyns lips tightened and she fixed Nell with her mouselike gaze.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Robyns lips tightened and she fixed Nell with her mouselike gaze.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Robyns lips tightened and she fixed Nell with her mouselike gaze.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

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