jailish

English

Etymology

jail +‎ -ish

Adjective

jailish (comparative more jailish, superlative most jailish)

1. Resembling or characteristic of prison.
   • 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.