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How to use childish in a sentence

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His character is appropriately cold and callous part of the time, but also sappily emotional and childish part of the time.
A radical change of attitudes to ageing finds many of us determined to cling to childish things for as long as we jolly well like.
That childish hope that the world is a good place, I retain, and I think that is childlike.
I have a kind of childish way about me, I suppose, and that helps the film.
When choosing a young tree, however, be sure to put a tactful check on childish enthusiasm.
There was a certain puerile joy in her, a childish excitement shone in her eyes.
It's not often that a circus like this comes to town, exceeding any childish expectations.
Even at 35 you still get that same sense of childish excitement when you notice that it has been snowing overnight.
This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years.
It is only to the bystander that the participants just look stupid and childish.
He immediately snapped out of his reverie, feeling quite stupid and childish.
If this all sounds a bit silly, over-the-top, or childish, none of it seemed out of place.
To do otherwise would be as childish and immature as my behaviour in the first place.
When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism?
I also banned her IP, because if she's going to be childish, she can do it someplace else.
He told me a story of his childhood and I laughed drunkenly at its childish stupidity.
Thirdly, there is no need to engage in childish name calling or immature ranting.
She took a deep breath and mentally berated herself for being so silly and childish.
John said he thought it was childish and silly, and that they had to be taken seriously now.
These issues to me are far more important than childish name calling and are really what we should be spending our time reforming.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She saw the childish fingers unlace the helmet, unbind the gorget, unbelt the sword, and lay aside the armor.
He is evidently childish, and breaks now and then into an anile laugh at the thought, no doubt, of some dead old pot-house jest.
We surmised that he found encouragement in this house, and had beforetime listened to thy childish and unreasoning folly.
But a ridiculous and childish fable of the belly and the rest of the members.
But here she was, chaffing the colonel and chattering childish jargon to Anne.
On a chaise longue in this ivory and rose sanctum, reposed a big, beautiful doll, preserved from childish days.
I have often heard Pericles speak of his childish obstinacy and perseverance.
A girl of Frederica's age must be childish indeed, if such things do not strike her.
But just then my childish pride was grievously piqued by Philip's criticism.
The coprolagnia here, however, had its source in a childish impression of admiration for the nates.
It is not strange when we consider his adherence all his life to so childish a technical programme as divisionism.
It all came of the dress coat, and of his childish vanity in his white wristbands.
As a matter of fact, in their family every ebullition of feeling was regarded as childish.
At least the possibilities of stun-guns were envisioned in their childish games.
It is childish to go in search of the geographic location of this homeland.
We sat looking out of the black windows of the omnibus with much of that childish delight which a shadowgraph theatre gives.
She is only twenty, very clever at any headwork, but curiously childish about anything real.
I was to make a parable of my childish experience with the Skye terrier, assuming that life was organised to do me good.
They will have smiled at his childish tempers, applauded his snakelike cunning, and laughed outright at his heathen superstitions.
She chattered with the childish artlessness that at times veiled her sophistication.
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