childish
Example Sentences
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You’re trying to communicate something to a group that doesn’t want you to communicate to them, but, instead, wants you to simply imitate or channel angsty teenage feelings—that’s really childish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The series’ musical landscape also includes a myriad of folk songs, such as the drunken tavern tune “Alice With Three Fingers” and the childish rhyming couplets of “The Hammer and the Anvil.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Little by little, through her childish chatter retracing her arrival in Denmark and some research done in South Korea, Randel uncovered a different story from the one in her Danish adoption papers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
"Sometimes I feel he is more grown-up and I'm more childish," she says, "though I can be quite bossy."
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
The thought of her brought to his mind the sense of her wise and childish sweetness.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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