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jaillike

a. Resembling, or characteristic of, a jail.

Usage examples of "jaillike".

Two guards, huge and somewhat piglike, nodded and grunted and then gave way, and a jaillike door was unlocked and opened.

The place had a jaillike quality—narrow, silvered windows bolted and barred, the front door a slab of brushed steel, no landscaping other than a single thirsty liquidambar tree which cast spindly shadows on the tar-paper roof.