What is "rattish"

Usage examples of "rattish".

He was an ugly, rattish man, this stowaway, and his eyes glared up from beneath the twisted visor of his shabby cap.

But there were others with guns, who were shifting to drill the canvas and ferret out the rattish Malmordo with bullets.

Don Lucifer di SEmbowelli Borgia had ordered the concrete over-shoeing in revenge for not only bungling his nose job, but also for the rat-tail that post surgery he had discovered dangling from his rear and the rattish squeakings that he now emitted every time he opened his mouth .

And small though they might be, and rattish in their countenance, there was no denying that her assailants were possessed of a ferocity the equal of her own.

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

They had rattish pointed faces and tiny pink hands, like the servitor who had brought her the glass of shade.

Not a face belonging to The Shadow, but the sallow, rattish visage of Snipe Shailey!

His rattish eyes were glazed, but they saw the waiting cab with open door.

He had allowed the rattish crook time, knowing that Kip would not be ready on the instant.

But he was scared in a rattish sort of way, as though a guilt lay on his own conscience.

The fellow licked his lips anxiously, putting all the sincerity that he could into his rattish countenance.

True, they had turned when trapped, but they had done so in a rattish fashion.

He was gripped by evil eagerness, that brought a devilish leer to his rattish face.

The rattish man pointed his gun hand upward, preparing for the downward sweep that would order the squad to fire.

Flute lilt reveals just how untenable their rattish existence had been until the covenant hidden in this little turn of phrase came to release them.