Ratlike

PHILADELPHIA-She wished in her personal blog that she could call students "ratlike," "frightfully dim" or "dunderheads" on their report cards. ❋ Jeremy Roebuck (2011)

Her gaze narrowed until her ratlike eyes nearly disappeared. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2010)

“Maybe if you start caring about how you look, I might consider keeping you around when I take over this department, Raquel,” he says, with his usual ratlike smile. ❋ Margo Candela (2010)

Eager to please, crouching over him, Evie was smooth, ratlike in a nice way, Buddy thought, a nibbling rodent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The whole scene was slightly unsavory, beginning with the ratlike Lemming rifling through things that had actually touched her skin and ending with the hopefully huge check he would write to scoop it all up in his Nike duffel. ❋ Jenny Nelson (2010)

And she suspected that her ratlike existence on these occasions was due to Grace's reluctance to reveal that she could afford a housekeeper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not even creepy ratlike Flighters living in squalor. ❋ D. J. MacHale (2009)

A sweet-faced young voter sings affectionately to a small evil-looking ratlike creature burrowing into London Paper, to the tune of Ben ❋ Juliette (2009)

Stage actor Max Schreck's performance as the blood-sucking Count Orlok, replete with ratlike incisors and elongated fingernails, was so otherworldly that it encouraged the urban legend that he was really a vampire. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's a picture of a ravenous looking ratlike creature with a suspicious trouser bulge carrying a club and a bigass knife. ❋ Ana-ng (2009)

I take the flashlight out, and I point it at the sniffing, and it is a bandicoot, a large, furry, ratlike creature. ❋ Patrick K. O’Donnell (2002)

It's a massive 15-pound ratlike critter called the nutria, whose reproductive powers are almost as mighty as its gargantuan appetite. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The apparent trigger was an onscreen "explosion," followed by several seconds of flashing red lights from the face of the ratlike Pikachu, the show's star character. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When they were raiding the food cabinet, for example, they ran on all fours in a very ratlike way. ❋ James Gurney (2008)

In Ratatouille, the main rat characters shifted back and forth between humanlike and ratlike characteristics. ❋ James Gurney (2008)