catty-cornered

Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.

With its eastern borders under siege from Russia, Ukrainians feel cornered and insecure.

A whimpering, half-growl and curdled scream, a cornered-animal cry of a sound.

Putin is cornered, according to Saakashvili, which is why he is lashing out.

“Catty, petty, and self-serving,” is how one of those way-right-of-center folk described Geithner to me.

Rat this pawn of the Eye may have been, but even a cornered rat will fight with the courage of a lion.

In fact, they were the real commanders, although the fire inspector had yellow and crimson feathers in his three-cornered hat.

Such a bear, they had heard, always preferred to run away, and was not much to be dreaded unless cornered or wounded.

Still no answer, while the scoundrel gazed about like a cornered cat, looking for chance to escape.

At first he brazened it out, and finally, when he was cornered, he turned state's evidence to save what he could of his own skin.