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  • adjective comparative form of mousy: more mousy

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Examples

  • When it comes to women in business, there is a common assumption that being super-rich and beautiful, with long blonde hair and an elegant 5'11 frame, usually means you are not taken as seriously as your male or mousier colleagues.

    Ivanka Trump And The Art Of Being Underestimated Kris Ruby 2010

  • When it comes to women in business, there is a common assumption that being super-rich and beautiful, with long blonde hair and an elegant 5'11 frame, usually means you are not taken as seriously as your male or mousier colleagues.

    Ivanka Trump And The Art Of Being Underestimated Kris Ruby 2010

  • When it comes to women in business, there is a common assumption that being super-rich and beautiful, with long blonde hair and an elegant 5'11 frame, usually means you are not taken as seriously as your male or mousier colleagues.

    Ivanka Trump And The Art Of Being Underestimated Kris Ruby 2010

  • Consider This: This virtue name is gaining popularity, but it has a mousier image than, say, Hope or Charity.

    5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008

  • Consider This: This virtue name is gaining popularity, but it has a mousier image than, say, Hope or Charity.

    5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008

  • She marched against the war; she cheered Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi, while her mousier roommate kept her subversive thoughts to herself and read literature and went to chamber-music recitals and thought about getting an M.L.S. degree after graduation and then finding a librarian's job in some quiet liberal-arts college.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • She marched against the war; she cheered Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi, while her mousier roommate kept her subversive thoughts to herself and read literature and went to chamber-music recitals and thought about getting an M.L.S. degree after graduation and then finding a librarian's job in some quiet liberal-arts college.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Yes, this is another horrific tale of roommates gone wrong, with the mousy-voiced Meester (TV's "Gossip Girl") menacing the mousier-voiced Minka (TV's "Friday Night Lights" and "Parenthood").

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Every woman she saw appeared to be six feet tall and blond, which normally would have made Jess—at five-foot-two with brown curls—feel even shorter and mousier than usual, but that night she felt as giddy as if she’d drunk champagne, as if her heart was full of helium, as if she could float.

    The Guy Not Taken Jennifer Weiner 2006

  • In truth, in Azshara’s presence, Tyrande felt even mousier than the handmaiden.

    THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005

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