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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

B1

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

See also

jailless jaillike Jain Jainistic Jainological Jaipuri