jailish
adjEtymology From jail + -ish.
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.