Meaning of jailish | Babel Free
Definitions
Resembling or characteristic of prison.
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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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