Mousiness

Her advanced state of mousiness is unmistakable, as is her domestic life and social status. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But others, especially those who are thin, say ordering a salad displays an unappealing mousiness. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

He had wasted his time and his life through cowardice and pusillanimity, through mousiness instead of manliness. ❋ Rendell, Ruth (2000)

Most of them had believed in her carefully planned mousiness. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)