clergylike

English

Etymology

clergy +‎ -like

Adjective

clergylike (comparative more clergylike, superlative most clergylike)

1. 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.