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He was infantile, narcissistic, driven, unreasonable and, at times, brilliantly irrational.
A certain coarseness pervades the book, from the crude characterisation to the infantile wish-fulfilment, right down to the playground profanity.
Mama turned from the stewpot, a sour expression warping her countenance as she beheld my infantile behavior.
That article was the most pathetic excuse for him to showcase his infantile vocabulary.
Padlin looked at Waddley, amazed at the infantile terror palsying his features.
More than eight out of ten hirsute he-males told some infantile men's magazine that their chest fuzz made them feel more manly.
The sounds are good, with plenty of Pixies-ish guitar squall, Bono-ish vocals and catchily infantile riffs.
The school would have sat empty for the first four months of 1925 as an infantile paralysis epidemic swept across the country.
Whenever it's time to jack up the joke factor, they become loud, piggish, and infantile.
Fortunately, I grew out of the spell of legal formalism and its infantile over-simplifications.
According to the guideline, adrenocorticotropic hormone is probably effective for the short-term treatment of infantile spasms.
Curves of this magnitude usually have an infantile or juvenile onset rather than an adolescent onset.
The classification as infantile or juvenile forms depends on the amount of renal disease present.
Now I realise that it's been there all along, with its stupid, slobbering tongue and its vacuous, infantile grin.
Mental or physical illness, therefore, may be considered as instituting regression to an early stage of infantile development.
If such infantile hyperbole doesn't have you laughing like a drain, you haven't a hope of wading through this somewhat too hefty book.
We are the laughing stock of Europe with our ridiculously high prices for everything and our stupid infantile government.
From this recent example one can see Beijing's infantile, ridiculous and thuggish attitude.
Never mind all the infantile anthropomorphism about how animals feel that will be bleated at this week's hearings.
I personally think that hunger for change for change's sake is pretty infantile.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Ben could dredge up no infantile memory of them but a blur of faces sharing nothing, voices tediously speaking not for him.
Long ago, in the infantile days of evolutionism, I often wondered why people made collections on such an irrational plan.
What an amount of infantile aberrations from propriety is the admonitory Paw-paw!
In this study Freud shows out of what infantile forms of thought and instincts the delusional system was built up.
Now we know from neuropsychology that burning ambition in later years represents a reaction formation to infantile bed wetting.
When it becomes necessary to desex men, the resulting condition is infantile, not female.
It is usually the result of infantile paralysis of the muscles of the calf.
In one family a child at three years old had infantile paralysis, easily curable.
This is a form of laming or crippling of certain muscles in childhood known as infantile paralysis.
Two years later, Flexner isolated the bacillus of infantile paralysis and Plotz that of typhus fever.
Recently the stable fly has been found to carry the dread disease known as infantile paralysis.
It has been discovered recently that germs of infantile paralysis are conveyed by the housefly.
The hypermnesia of the dream and the resort to infantile material have become main supports in our theory.
It has not, however, been accorded any place in the symptomatology of infantile scurvy.
An epidemic of infantile gastroenteritis in Queensland caused by salmonella bovis-morbificans.
It sounded a little infantile, but he was pretty sure none of those present had any sound knowledge of robotic intelligence.
It is associated with congenital abnormalities such as metatarsus adductus, torticollis, infantile spina bifida and talipes equinovarus.
He was a slightly ragged man, who spat skillfully between his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance.
Autopsies on imbeciles show an infantile development of the forebrain.
For Jean LaPlanche, who devised the concept, the enigmatic signifier functions in the first instance as a vehicle of infantile sexualization.
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