childish
Example Sentences
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She sounded very childish, suddenly, her voice thin in the huge forest.
From Literature
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They sound so childish and innocent, and I think that I will even miss their quarreling.
From Literature
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"It's really nostalgic and cute. Like some 2000s cute aesthetic," she said, admitting that some people her age "just don't like it or think it's childish".
From Barron's
After 3½ decades of Francoism, during which, the author reminds us, the dictator “decided that Spaniards were too childish to govern themselves,” there was a palpable sense of a nation orphaned.
Such a strategy would be a childish way for this adult man to act.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.