Jailish

"Jailish" in a Sentence (2 examples)

March 9 1788, Anna Seward, a letter […] the jailish gloom of Venetian blinds […]

751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […] a certain want of decorum, a squalor of sentiment, a sort of jailish cast, contracted in the course of confinement, which disgusted the delicacy of our hero's observation.

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