babyishness

• “She was a girl who had scant sympathy with what she called "babyishness", and disliked any exhibition of feeling.”

  The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life

• “Oh and then just the pure babyishness of the adolescent politics in the damn thing.”

  intertribal: the good thing is, I kept thinking of movies I liked, not movies I hated

• “In an alternative title chase, managers could receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness”

  The Guardian: It's tight at the top of The Plonkership

• “Just as Formula One runs both drivers 'and constructors' championships, so the Premier League 2011-2012 should see the inaugural season of The Plonkership, in which managers would receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness displayed during everything from media outings to interactions with fourth officials.”

  The Guardian: It's tight at the top of The Plonkership

• “Why does the media encourage such intellectual babyishness?”

  These ignorant atheist scientists keep missing the point

• “I'm trying to bring him up properly - teasing him out of his babyishness, and making him stand on his own feet.”

  Five Go To Billycock Hill

• “There was too much shyness in her glance, too much babyishness about her mouth.”

  Marcia Schuyler

• “Basil, though close on sixty, had moods of boisterous babyishness, and these seemed for some reason or other to descend upon him particularly in the house of his studious and almost dingy friend.”

  The Club of Queer Trades

• “The woman's strained nerves were on edge all day, so that her feelings were easily hurt, and her brothers and sisters became, as they thought, justly impatient at what they considered her silly babyishness.”

  Nerves and Common Sense

• “Confound my babyishness!" snarled Rathburn, stooping and pocketing his weapon.”

  The Tangled Threads

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