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babyish

adjective as in acting like an infant

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Example Sentences

This is just too much, all this babyish caterwauling from Mitch McConnell.

The fork was polite because it was less overtly violent than a knife, less babyish and messy than a spoon.

She was waving a twig of lavender, and little Martha was making grabs at it, and laughing her gurgling laugh of babyish glee.

But they're rather babyish; you see they've always lived at home, and never had to depend on themselves at all.

He thought Bob would not have thought much of him for it; it was rather babyish.

Johnny sounded so babyish, so childlike, so affectionate, yet she felt that she could not speak of him as "John."

She stood an instant longer, then bending, ran her hand caressingly down a rosy bare leg, while she kissed the babyish red mouth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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