Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being childish; puerility; simplicity; weakness of intellect: most frequently used in a disparaging sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
childish . - noun countable Childish behaviour.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a property characteristic of a child
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Examples
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I guess that kind of childishness is just another aspect of our extra-specialness!
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This act of childishness is going to demonstrate just how immature these right-wing extremists really are.
Tea Party organizer vows to burn Pelosi and Perriello in effigy
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I would have had no problem at all with the Democrats working longer to "get it right" had they stood united with the President, but their back stabbing and childishness is sickening.
Talks break down, intra-party tension heats up for House Democrats
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This is mostly childishness, which is, I suppose, morally culpable, although again I can't see that it should affect our estimation of whatever genuine insights and aesthetic achievements arise from their iconoclasm as artists.
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You can continue you're childishness, that is the beauty of the Speccy they tolerate most people.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Some of the childishness was there, but the storylines seemed a little more ... something.
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She rolls her eyes like a timid kitten, and then all at once tamed, nestles against me, with a coaxing air of childishness, which is a delightfully transparent assumption.
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To-day I can laugh when I recall the childishness of my actions, the outcome of the unreasoned promptings of my puerile jealousy.
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She rolls her eyes like a timid kitten, and then all at once tamed, nestles against me, with a coaxing air of childishness, which is
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She rolls her eyes like a timid kitten, and then all at once tamed, nestles against me, with a coaxing air of childishness, which is a delightfully transparent assumption.
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