childishness

Example Sentences

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Kelly noted it as another example of the defense secretary’s childishness.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025

If you knew what lovely neighbors they are, I think you might regret your childishness.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022

But I suspect she’d have relished calmly collecting her notes and sauntering, not stomping, toward the exit to escape the tyranny of such childishness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022

The childishness, which isn’t overplayed, hints at something stunted in these otherwise quite capable adults.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2021

Thanks to my constitutional childishness, they have always sounded to me like the names by which the Three Musketeers really should have been known: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith