Definition of "mouselike" [mouselike]

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

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