Word Finder - childish

definition

Of or suitable for a child.

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Behaving immaturely.

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Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.

It was a childish thing for her to do.

I've had about enough of your childish pranks.

It was childish and she should get over it.

Some are said to maintain that it was an abbreviation of a childish nickname, "le petit volontaire."

How my childish imagination glowed with the splendour of their enterprise!

When he finished the chores, he swallowed three aspirins and went outside to shovel the accumulating snow, hoping further activity might dissipate the anger he felt, not only at Shipton, but at himself for losing it in so public and childish manner.

I recall with unmixed delight those days when a thousand childish fancies became beautiful realities.

He tried to say, "That's capital; of course she'll forget her childish promises and accept the offer," but before he had time to say it Natasha began again.

That's kind of childish, isn't it – for a woman my age?

Did the room actually have a magical strength, or was it simply a childish fantasy?

If he thought it was childish to cry over a dog, he gave no indication.

She was jealous as a lover of the child's affection, and the struggle between the mother and grandmother was one of the bitterest of Aurore's childish troubles.

A burst of childish laughter greets my blunder, and the pantomime begins all over again.

That was one more thing Alex would find childish – her feelings about that room.

Wasn't that a little childish?

She accepted everything I did for her as a matter of course, and refused to be caressed, and there was no way of appealing to her affection or sympathy or childish love of approbation.

That is just what the teacher of the deaf child must be, a child ready to play and romp, and interested in all childish things.

Alex wouldn't think it was foolish or childish.

Some childish desire inside was disappointed that he didn't follow her.

Within Voltaire there was always a mischievous and ill-behaved child; and he was never more mischievous, more ill-behaved and more childish than in these years.

It is a continuance by adults of their childish games with dolls.

Prince Andrew only shrugged his shoulders at Pierre's childish words.

But he went with the firm intention of letting her and her parents feel that the childish relations between himself and Natasha could not be binding either on her or on him.

This sleek, sophisticated romper from Macy's is fashion proof that rompers can be sexy and stylish rather than cute and childish.

He soon learned to call to his aid the subsidiary sciences of geography and chronology, and before he was quite capable of reading them had already attempted to weigh in his childish balance the competing systems of Scaliger and Petavius, of Marsham and Newton.

In his Memoirs he speaks of the results of his " childish revolt against the religion of his country " with undisguised self gratulation.

The missionaries, finding their position secure, presently began to take action in political affairs, and persuaded the king to grant a constitution to the Tongans, who welcomed it with a kind of childish enthusiasm, but were far from fitted to receive it.

In June he seized Camerino and Urbino, the news of which capture filled the pope with childish joy.

History There is something almost pathetic in the childish wonder and delight with which mankind in its earlier phases of civilization gathered up and treasured stories of strange animals from distant lands or deep seas, such as are recorded in the Physiologus, in Albertus Magnus, and even at the present day in the popular treatises of Japan and China.

Louise, who concealed great cleverness and a strong will under an appearance of languor and a rather childish beauty (Evelyn the diarist speaks of her "baby face"), yielded only when she had already established a strong hold on the king's affections and character.

In addition to these affronts upon the state religion, he insulted the intelligence of the community by horseplay of the wildest description and by childish practical joking.

The comic papyri of the XXth Dynasty have also a very strong sense of character, even through coarse drawing and some childish combinations.

His prestige and his good qualities, carefully fostered by Seneca, made him popular, while his childish vanity, ungovernable selfishness and savage temper were as yet unsuspected.

Representative art languishes, except a few childish terra-cottas; decorative art becomes once more purely geometrical, but shows only slight affinity with the contemporary geometrical art of the Aegean.

He was buried in Bunhill Fields; and many Puritans, to whom the respect paid by Roman Catholics to the reliques and tombs of saints seemed childish or sinful, are said to have begged with their dying breath that their coffins might be placed as near as possible to the coffin of the author of the Pilgrim's Progress.

By natural instinct he hated the French, but there was no room in his nearly imbecile mind for more than childish superstition, insane pride of birth, and an interest in court etiquette.

Two childish voices laughed merrily at this action, and Dorothy was sure they were in no danger among such light-hearted folks, even if those folks couldn't be seen.

Soon even my childish voice was stilled, because I had ceased to hear any sound.

Natasha did not like the visitor's tone of condescension to childish things.

I expect he has told you of his childish love for Natasha?

Wouldn't that be more rewarding than your childish romantic fantasies?

It was tempting to denounce him in front of everyone, but that would be childish.

He has alluded to a childish fancy for a young girl with a slight obliquity of vision; but he only mentions it 1 Ouvres, x.

After he had undergone the ceremony of degradation with all the childish formalities usual on such occasions, his soul was formally consigned by all those present to the devil, while he himself with clasped hands and uplifted eyes reverently committed it to Christ.

In spite of the incapacity which he displayed in this war, John was sent a little later 'to govern Ireland (1185); but he returned in a few months covered with disgrace, having alienated the loyal chiefs by his childish insolence and entirely failed to defend the settlers from the hostile septs.

Fifty thousand boys and girls were persuaded by some pestilent dreamers that their childish innocence would effect what their immoral fathers had failed to accomplish, and so left their homes on an expedition to capture the Holy Land.

He was not incapable of affection nor without generous impulses, but he was flighty, passionate in a childish way, and when angry capable of cruelty.

The king's own life was passed amid court festivities, on which enormous sums of money were wasted, or in the practice of childish piety.

Lastly, still following the main lines of human culture, the primitive germs of religious institutions have to be traced in the childish faith and rude rites of savage life, and thence followed in their expansion into the vast systems administered by patriarchs and priests, henceforth taking under their charge the precepts of morality, and enforcing them under divine sanction, while also exercising in political life an authority beside or above the civil law.

The pictorial art of the Tasmanians was poor and childish, quite below that of the Palaeolithic men of Europe.