spylike

English

Etymology

spy +‎ -like

Adjective

spylike (comparative more spylike, superlative most spylike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a spy.
   • 1966, Mary Colum, Life and the dream:

     […] he looked an officer and a gentleman, though he had been engaged so long in plots, counterplots, intrigues, and conspiracies that a sort of spylike expression had come into his face.

Anagrams

• peskily