childishness
Example Sentences
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“South Park” is not immune from childishness, to put it mildly, and there is an element of “worst thought, best thought” in its humor; Parker and Stone are all in on scatology and dumb puns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
He's gotten away with this stubborn childishness his whole life assuming that nothing could stop him because nothing ever has.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
Resigned to the privileged childishness of her dominant lover, the narrator comes to a clearer understanding of her own human fallibility.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
If you knew what lovely neighbors they are, I think you might regret your childishness.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
With the backpack-pushing and the assignment-ripping and all the general childishness that occurred between me and Miles, it only took him a month to banish me to work in the concession stand with Theo.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
