mousiness

Her advanced state of mousiness is unmistakable, as is her domestic life and social status.

To Serve a Serial Killer Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

Regarding your comment: “Sheen of horrible mousiness” pretty much sums up why I could not in good conscience donate my bundt pan to charity.

Waldo Jaquith - Mini-vacation. 2007

But others, especially those who are thin, say ordering a salad displays an unappealing mousiness.

Archive 2007-08-01 Ann Althouse 2007

He had wasted his time and his life through cowardice and pusillanimity, through mousiness instead of manliness.

Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000

Most of them had believed in her carefully planned mousiness.

The Harp of Imach Thyssel Wrede, Patricia C., 1953- 1985

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 Neels, Betty 1984

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.

SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

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.

Phillies Zone 2010

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.

CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes) 2010

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.

chron.com Chronicle 2010