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• His behavior was unusual in that it was considered childish for a man of his age.From the entry unusual
• Can't we all sit down and discuss this adultly, without the childish name-calling?From the entry adultly
• I think a lot of people are upset, and they’re acting childish.”2025 December 20, Richard Fausset, Ken Bensinger, quoting Dana Steuben, “Turning Point’s Annual Gathering Turns Into a Gripefest”, in The…. From the entry infighting
• There was such blackness ahead, he opted for the childish, ostrichy trick of pretending it wasn’t there.2000, Tibor Fischer, I Like Being Killed: Stories, Henry Holt and Company, published 2015, →ISBN. From the entry ostrichy
• Literary history abounds with cases of multi-addiction and personal mayhem of the most childish sort.1999, Rick Bass, Brown dog of the Yaak: essays on art and activism. From the entry multi-addiction
• Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.1996, Kathryn Lindskoog, Light in the Shadowlands: Protecting the Real C.S. Lewis. From the entry juvenilia
• She was a fine girl, but he wasn't going to fall for this childish trick.1953, Ian Fleming, “Black Hare and Grey Hound”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 105. From the entry no dice
• The childish levels, the undersoil of the mind, had been turned up.1945, C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, London: The Bodley Head, published 1965, Part Two, Chapter 5, p. 166. From the entry undersoil
• A small person in a long plain overall, almost childish, nunnishly garbed from throat to foot!1918, Mrs. Baillie Reynolds, The Lonely Stronghold, page 186. From the entry nunnishly
• All of this agitation before the Furor Teutonicus is hopelessly childish.1915, L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap, “Germanization”, in Europe’s Handicap—Tribe and Class, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Benton, page 303. From the entry propagandum
• Particular professors and sober Scotchmen may denounce as childish the desire for imaginative fiction.1914 March 7, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, All-Story Weekly, Letters. From the entry imaginative fiction
• Then came a childish voice, low and gentle, but eager: “Motherkins, please tell me!1911 November 5, “Those Fool Questions—and Some Fool Retorts […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry motherkins
• No wax-candle can shine like two childish eyes!2015, Five Golden Books of Child. From the entry wax-candle
• His rhymeprose and verse began to accumulate, but in a grown man such childish efforts could only inspire shame.2013, Peter H. Lee, Sourcebook of Korean Civilization: Volume One. From the entry rhymeprose
• She didn't want to lose their childish battle of wills, but neither did she want some parasite swimming up her hoo-ha.2009, Lexi Ryan, Stilettos, Inc., page 163. From the entry hoo-ha
• “Are you okey-dokey, Jo?” a high-pitched, childish voice piped up.2004, Linda Lehmann Masek, chapter 13, in The Poison Tree, New York, N.Y.: Avalon Books, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry okey-dokey
• Rivalry is one thing, but your tirade is childish chickenpoop.1998 April 21, Speerjf, “Marine Corps/Army question”, in alt.folklore.military (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jun 2026. From the entry chickenpoop
• For the ageplayer, reexperiencing childish vulnerability or helplessness in an emotionally and physically safe context satisfies a profound emotional need.1996, Gloria G. Brame, William D. Brame, Jon Jacobs, Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission. From the entry ageplayer
• But suppose I hang about till eighty and die a childish old gentleman with a mind all gone to seed.1919, Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary. From the entry go to seed
• I felt so light and free and happy—so childish!1911, Katherine Mansfield, “The Luft Bad”, in In a German Pension, London: Stephen Swift & Co, page 132. From the entry poke out
• Sylvie was blossoming at fourteen, already attracting male attention but still exuding a winful childish charm that kept Jack wrapped around her little finger.2020, Denise Weimer, The Gray Divide. From the entry winful
• "Dangerous Donald" is stupid and childish.2016 May 7, Charles P. Pierce, “Happy Friday. 'Dangerous Donald' Is Childish and Stupid”, in Esquire. From the entry skate one's lane
• Either of our own choosing or sometimes it is forced upon us, we lose our childish innocence and take on false “grown-upness.”2016, Robert B. Shaw Jr., Created for Understanding, →ISBN. From the entry grown-upness
• Childish, childish to the core: that's why they're so good at nursing, they're arrested in a state of permanent intellectual dwarfism themselves!2011, Peter Burt, Fables, page 124. From the entry dwarfism
• Can such a child be ennobled by the passage of time, his struggles granted retroactive gravitas and his childish confusions rearticulated with adult clarity?2007 April 15, Liesl Schillinger, “The Night Train to Bucharest”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022. From the entry retroactive
• British religious educator John Hull warns churches of the dangers of maintaining the puerilization of their members (keeping them childish in their thinking).2003, F. LeRon Shults, Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality, page 68. From the entry puerilization
• Yet he paints almost nothing but ghetto life—and in a semi-naïf, rather childish fashion, does it with enough feeling to “put it over.”1978, Sidney Alexander, Marc Chagall: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 460. From the entry semi-naïf
• The childish, immature, or neurotic superego is rigid; it is characterized by slavish adherence to rules which, moreover, may not be clearly understood.1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 9, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 152. From the entry superego
• He remembered her look of distress, her childish "Oh!" when he took her for the first time, clumsily, because he felt ashamed.1967 [1945], Georges Simenon, translated by Jean Stewart, Monsieur Monde Vanishes, New York, N.Y.; London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich…. From the entry take
• The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marihuana.1963, Howard S[aul] Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York, N.Y.: Free Press of Glencoe; London…. From the entry muggle
• The girl was wearing her school coat, and childish low-heeled clumpish black school shoes; and consequently looked younger than Blair had anticipated.1948, Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair, page 37. From the entry clumpish
• If a motor-cycle, why not bicycles, roller skates, autopeds, "scooters," stilts, and all other means of locomotion dear to the childish heart?1917, Bench and Bar - Volume 11, page 374. From the entry autoped
• They are misguided by misinformation, and talking the Undisputed Truth is a physical means of weaning these little lambies from their childish and sheep like behaviour.2014, Lee Maddaford, True Enlightenment, page 29. From the entry lambie
• Happiness at seeing her mother, Tegan's friendly company, the sociable grownupness of it all had relegated Moses's story almost to the distant domain of night terrors and childish imaginings.2011, Alex Jones, Cedar Flat, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry grownupness
• Trading in their battered RV and Louisiana swamplands for a sumptuous pink mansionette with swimming pool, the Malloys pull off their ruse with skill and also childish naïveté.2007 December 3, Alessandra Stanley, “For This Family of Pros, the Con Is Everything”, in The New York Times. From the entry swampland
• Toby played the lightly chivvied ‘husband’ very sweetly, and Sophie claimed him in the childish ways of someone experimenting with her power, with little exasperations and innuendos.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry chivvy
• A childish (and Rousseau-ist) view of children as noble savages often is part of a belief that nature is a sweet garden and science and technology are spoilsome intrusions.1984, Gary Goshgarian, The Contemporary Reader from Little, Brown. From the entry spoilsome
• As matters now stand, "programs" too often result in the formation of individuals whose intelligence may be hyperadult, but whose affective and moral sensibility is childish.1966, George F. McLean, Christian Philosophy in the College and Seminary, page 76. From the entry hyperadult

Meaning of childish

1. adjective Immature in thought or behaviour.
2. adjective Suitable for or expected of a child.

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How do you use childish in a sentence?

Childish is used as an adjective. For example: “Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.”

What is a short sentence with childish?

“This game is very childish.”

What does childish mean?

Childish means immature in thought or behaviour.