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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
dungeon
Etymologies
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Examples
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He shook off the feeling and refocused, opened the door, and stepped into the square, dungeonlike room.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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As it turned out, the practice room itself was sort of dungeonlike—if the Rich Bitch Hill version of dungeons has dark walls covered with acoustic foam and thick black carpet on the floor.
Freefall Mindi Scott 2010
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Wherever she was—and her quick survey had told her only that she was housed in a tiny, dungeonlike room with stone walls, a beamed ceiling, a small slit of a window that no human being could possibly fit through and that revealed what seemed to be an impenetrably black night beyond—her situation was bad.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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By February 28, May was directing Beatty and Hoffman on the premises of the defunct, dungeonlike Upper West Side club Trax, renamed the Song Mart, where Rogers and Clarke, were premiering their first song together on an open mike night.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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Wherever she was—and her quick survey had told her only that she was housed in a tiny, dungeonlike room with stone walls, a beamed ceiling, a small slit of a window that no human being could possibly fit through and that revealed what seemed to be an impenetrably black night beyond—her situation was bad.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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He shook off the feeling and refocused, opened the door, and stepped into the square, dungeonlike room.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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He shook off the feeling and refocused, opened the door, and stepped into the square, dungeonlike room.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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And in a tiny, dungeonlike lab in the basement of Moscow's ominously named Institute of Psycho-Correction, Smirnov and other Russian psychiatrists are already working on schizophrenics, drug addicts and cancer patients.
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The wall was supposed to suggest a homey atmosphere but it resembled a mass of ugly bulging rock and it made the club seem dungeonlike or bunkeresque.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The wall was supposed to suggest a homey atmosphere but it resembled a mass of ugly bulging rock and it made the club seem dungeonlike or bunkeresque.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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