childish behavior

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The grown-up: Employed as Waystar Royco corporate counsel, Gerri personifies common sense business acumen while regularly calling out the Roy siblings’ childish behavior.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

What Eilish performs as a cathartic shedding of youthful heartbreak becomes, in 40-year-old Clarkson’s embodiment, an earth-quaking post-divorce anthem sung by a grown woman who’s had it up to here with childish behavior.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022

For there to be disappointment at childish behavior presumes an expectation of adult behavior.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2020

Apparently, the irony of posting an open letter, about childish behavior, on social media, is lost on her.

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2015

Percy, who disapproved of what he termed their childish behavior, didn’t spend much time in the Gryffindor common room.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling