Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
prisoner .
Etymologies
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prisoner + -like
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Examples
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In the past she's concocted sleek, cold sculptures of 32 identical prisonerlike men at a long dining table; a shrouded figure beside a Plexiglas pool of blood, and an oversize gold replica of a dashboard Madonna.
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While she stood still, she seemed passive, perhaps prisonerlike.
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