clergylike
English
Etymology
clergy + -like
Adjective
clergylike (comparative more clergylike, superlative most clergylike)
- Resembling or characteristic of the clergy.
- 2000, Daniel Okrent, Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
- He was quiet, unassuming, decidedly unflashy, nearly clergylike: the antithesis of the popular image of an agent.
- 2000, Daniel Okrent, Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game