rattish

We are a bit pack rattish about saving stuff, particularly pieces of wood.

Garden Bloggers Design Workshop- Under The Deck « Fairegarden 2008

Pixar is about to hedge all their bets on an upcoming rattish film by the name of Ratatouille.

Going Backwards fusenumber8 2007

It was a face worth concealing, skimpy and rattish and brooding and mean.

Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992

Hungry, perhaps, or perhaps merely yielding to the paranoid fury that was a normal component of the rattish mind, it squealed its defiance to the rat that was not a rat.

Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957

Barry covertly watched Natalie while Leyden's rattish characteristics were under discussion.

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

We know all his evil cunning, and most of us have seen the rattish, yellow streak that runs clear through him.

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

I had not meant to deliver my information quite so abruptly, but there was no help for it now, and I repeated the statement, giving him a terse account of my two encounters with the rattish youth, and adding:

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

The reappearance of this rattish youth, casual as was the air with which he strove to invest it, began to assume, for me, the character of a theatrical entrance of unpleasant portent -- a suggestion just now enhanced by an absurdly obvious notion of his own that he was enacting a part.

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

It crept out of the corners of rattish eyes, reading as it ran the sinister circle, and hurried back to its intense, malevolent business of transfixing the quarry in the corner.

The Rose in the Ring George Barr McCutcheon 1897

To me, speaking with due deference to the opinion of others, the proposals appear to be the most insane, foolish, and impracticable that could have been devised by rattish brains.

Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847