Childish [adjective]

Definition of Childish:

immature, silly

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Sentence/Example of Childish:

Resorting to Santa, a childish character in whom adults should not believe, shows how desperate I was.

In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"

There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.

Could this be the safe old house in which childish days had passed, in which all around were always friendly and familiar faces?

Here, as in so many of these childish admirations, we have to do not with a purely æsthetic perception.

One other illustration of this keen childish dialectic when face to face with the accuser deserves to be touched on.

No doubt, even in these choking circumstances, childish feeling may now and again peep out.

This element of symbolic indication will be found to run through the whole of childish drawing.

The arm in these childish drawings early develops the interesting adjunct of a hand.