Anagram SPEARLIKE ("of the kind befitting or characteristic of a spear") into two words of opposite meaning.

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Anagram SPEARLIKE ("of the kind befitting or characteristic of a
spear") into two words of opposite meaning.

[ Editor: problem statement reconstructed from the postings; it was a
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spearlike:

I found the answer......

it's not:  likes:rape    or     pale:skier     or    liars:peek

those aren't really opposite enough

but it's:

please, irk

-- Matthew Elkin <mre2b@darwin.clas.virginia.edu>

[ Editor: see also entry "antigram". ]