childish
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He spends too much time dragging the team down with his silly childish antics.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
“But no. There is something in his denial, in his insistence that it never happened, in his childish fury toward the newspaper that investigated his antisemitic past, that sounds like an admission.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"It's a childish response from a man who has never grown up, who has an immense ego which takes him absolutely nowhere," Anne Wardrop, a 90-year-old retiree, told AFP of the name change.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The vibes are childish, more like those of 11-year-old boys pretending they’re in an action cartoon than adult men who read books and enjoy the company of women.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
There were barbs of spite in her bright, childish voice when she asked, insincerely, “Sleep well?”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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