childishness

Example Sentences

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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

As hilarious as their childishness was as young men, it's even funnier and a tad more haunting when viewed in the form of late middle age folds and sags.

From Salon • May 20, 2022

Climbing on all fours over a daybed, the eloquent, lyrical bass Matthew Rose conveys in an instant the essential childishness of Wotan, the king of the gods.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021

Perhaps there was something childish about all the paladins of Arthur’s story—if being simple b the same as childishness.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White