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- n. The property of being mousy.
Examples
“Her advanced state of mousiness is unmistakable, as is her domestic life and social status.”
“Regarding your comment: “Sheen of horrible mousiness” pretty much sums up why I could not in good conscience donate my bundt pan to charity.”
“But others, especially those who are thin, say ordering a salad displays an unappealing mousiness.”
“He had wasted his time and his life through cowardice and pusillanimity, through mousiness instead of manliness.”
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories
“Most of them had believed in her carefully planned mousiness.”
The Harp of Imach Thyssel
“Her plain face had taken on a glow, she had done her hair in a most fetching way, and unless Eugenia was very much mistaken, its mousiness had been discreetly tinted.”
Heidelberg Wedding
“In so doing, it offers the last word on the signature Cera mousiness - that voice-cracking, adenoidal, hipster-dweeb routine that's served him so well, so far.”
“Mondevergine - the man once feared as the baddest biker in Philly - was all manners and mousiness when he appeared Friday morning in a Gloucester County courtroom for an extradition hearing.”
“I was a bit disappointed in this wine and I think the metallic hardness on the palate, which isn't on the nose, may be a sign there is some mousiness going on (Brettanomyces production of tetrahydropyridine) which may account for the mouvedre notes some are perceiving in this wine.”
“The script takes this near-pathological mousiness too far, and the pic's greatest flaw is the unmodulated shyness exhibited by Clara and, to a lesser degree, Musa.”
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