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
And also settling a very childish dispute between the airport and the contractors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Once I had thought I was going to die if my uncle didn’t buy it for me, and now, climbing onto it, it suddenly seemed silly and childish to me.
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
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