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Meaning of jailish | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

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

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

jailless jaillike Jain Jainistic Jainological Jaipuri

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