Missionary given lace pants (9)
I believe the answer is:
evangelic
'missionary' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'given lace pants' is the wordplay.
'pants' indicates anagramming the letters (UK informal term for 'nonsense' or 'rubbish').
'given'+'lace'='givenlace'
'givenlace' with letters rearranged gives 'EVANGELIC'.
(Other definitions for evangelic that I've seen before include "Old Protestant" , "preaching the gospel" , "Missionary" , "Based on the Gospels" , "Lucan, eg" .)