as in childish
having or showing the annoying qualities (as silliness) associated with children
the boy now thinks that playing with blocks is a rather babyish activity
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Adjective
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See, the issue here isn’t that a college dude did a dumb, childish thing.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
28 Apr. 2025 -
And anybody that thinks otherwise is just being foolish and immature and childish.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This doesn’t sound like their mess to clean up, and just sounds a bit immature/entitled.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Children and adults pick up an avalanche of unreliable information on social media, and children may process it with immature judgment.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the sparring, intellectual parents to two adolescent sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline), The Squid and the Whale responds to some of Baumbach’s own experiences as a product of divorce in the 1980s.—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2025
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One of the main jobs of the adolescent human is to pull away from their parents in preparation for adulthood.—
Cyndy Etler,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Both Mike and Harriet were juvenile commissioners assigned by the city of San Francisco to mentor boys and girls.—
Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley,
CBS News,
4 May 2025
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Leshem, a former journalist, locked himself in an Israeli juvenile prison for two weeks (for research).—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
2 May 2025
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“Babyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babyish. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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