childishness
Example Sentences
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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
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
They’d seen things our parents hadn’t—things that Craig and I, in our raucous childishness, couldn’t begin to guess.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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