childish
IPA: tʃˈaɪɫdɪʃ
adjective
- Of or suitable for a child.
- Immature in thought or behaviour.
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Examples of "childish" in Sentences
- He'd like to use the word "childish" but feels it's too harsh.
- Percy, who disapproved of what he termed their childish behavior, didn't spend much time in the Gryffindor common room.
- Blagojevich also apologized to his family, his brother, and for his "self-absorbed behavior," which he called "childish and petty."
- With tear-filled eyes, my younger siblings and I waved goodbye as one by one the older kids deserted us and what they termed our childish ways.
- At a private meeting at which only he, Ibn Sa'ud and I were present, he lost all patience over what he called the childish attitude of Ibn Sa'ud in his tribal boundary idea.
- Marco Reininger, a veteran and political science major at Columbia, wrote on The Huffington Post that, despite what he called the childish catcalls that greeted Maschek, the institution as a whole is neither as elitist nor as condescending as the media firestorm suggests.
- Both have, however, one common ground on which they become indistinguishable, -- that region of the supernatural which is most primitive and most vague; and the closest relation between the savage and the civilized fancy may be found in the fears which we call childish, -- of darkness, shadows, and things dreamed.
- Certainly the French father might have followed the custom of his class and country, and coerced his young daughter into the acceptance of any husband he might have chosen for her; but he did not feel disposed to use harsh measures with his only and idolized child; he rather preferred to exercise patience and forbearance toward her, until she should have outlived what he called her childish caprices.
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