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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.

Etymologies

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prisoner +‎ -like

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Examples

  • 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.

    Invasion Of The Rat-King 2008

  • While she stood still, she seemed passive, perhaps prisonerlike.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

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