Skylike vs Spylike - What's the difference?
skylike | spylike |
Resembling the sky or some aspect of it.
* 1854 , The eclectic magazine of foreign literature, science, and art
Resembling or characteristic of a spy.
* 1966 , Mary Colum, Life and the dream
As adjectives the difference between skylike and spylike
is that skylike is resembling the sky or some aspect of it while spylike is resembling or characteristic of a spy.skylike
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Trailing and creeping plants of every clime will soon be twining their fingers into every recess of the iron-work, and mounting still higher by every pillar and "coigne of vantage," until they have gained the skylike arch of glass.
Anagrams
*spylike
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ...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.