Definitions
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- adjective Resembling
kid (the material). - adjective informal
Childlike . - adjective
Typical of akid (i.e., ajuvenile goat );haedine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"She always said things in a way that was not kidlike," says her mother, standing in an aisle of books in the electric-blue dress she wore for her daughter's reading.
Danielle Evans, an author straddling racial divides DeNeen L. Brown 2010
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"She always said things in a way that was not kidlike," says her mother, standing in an aisle of books in the electric-blue dress she wore for her daughter's reading.
Danielle Evans, an author straddling racial divides DeNeen L. Brown 2010
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It was such a kidlike thing to say, and these “kids” were in their twenties.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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It was such a kidlike thing to say, and these “kids” were in their twenties.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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They are too kidlike for this newly grown-up room, silly blue dolphins dancing in the wind against the somber dark wood of the antique bed.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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It was such a kidlike thing to say, and these “kids” were in their twenties.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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It was such a kidlike thing to say, and these “kids” were in their twenties.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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They are too kidlike for this newly grown-up room, silly blue dolphins dancing in the wind against the somber dark wood of the antique bed.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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Toyland's ironic title comes from the name adults gave children, bothJews and gentiles, disguising a real destination, to calm them into looking forward to the train ride, the deadly deportation East, at least in this fantasy that evokes the kidlike innocence in the feature film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
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But while Indiana's excellent piece draws upon Nikolay Gogol, Antonio Gramsci, post-Confucian history, and enthusiasm for the rich pleasures of contemporary South Korean film, it ignores one major stylistic source of The Host's ability to induce kidlike joy.
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