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English
Adjective
dungeon-like (comparative more dungeon-like, superlative most dungeon-like)
- Alternative form of dungeonlike.
1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. , volume I, London: J Johnson, ; and G[eorge,] G and J Robinson, , →OCLC, chapter II, pages 27–28:Sometimes, with a ſtrict injunction of ſilence, Jemima would allow Maria, at the cloſe of evening, to ſtray along the narrow avenues that ſeparated the dungeon-like apartments, leaning on her arm.
1855, Anne Bowman, Esperanza; or, The Home of the Wanderers, London: G Routledge & Co., , page 325:It certainly appeared, from the report of the young hunters, that they had discovered a much more desirable place of refuge than the dark, chill, dungeon-like cave behind the old hut, which they had contemplated, in extreme need, might afford concealment to Mr. Merton and the females.
2001, W[infried] G[eorg] Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, pages 148–149:[…] in the outermost suburbs, I came upon a darkly looming building, from the dungeon-like basement of which there emerged a caretaker called Bartoloměj Smečka, a veteran, it seemed, of long-lost campaigns, clad in a crumpled redingote and a flowered fancy waistcoat with a gold watch chain draped over it, […]