childish

Example Sentences

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After 3½ decades of Francoism, during which, the author reminds us, the dictator “decided that Spaniards were too childish to govern themselves,” there was a palpable sense of a nation orphaned.

From The Wall Street Journal

Such a strategy would be a childish way for this adult man to act.

From Salon

This train of thought may sound childish, but bear in mind that Penelope had muddled through without her parents for many a year.

From Literature

There was the picnic hamper of sandwiches, the trunk full of supplies, the cave walls full of Beowulf’s childish scrawls.

From Literature

He knew it was childish, but he didn’t care.

From Literature