babyishness

Example Sentences

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DeGarmo has a strange mix of babyishness and variety-show maturity--she's Dr. Seuss's Cindy-Lou Who in Kathie Lee Gifford's pantsuit and 3-in. heels--that has led Cowell to liken her to a "pageant contestant."

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet, she loved him for not knowing, for his boyishness, his babyishness, his simplicity.

From Mount Music by Ross, Martin

The woman's strained nerves were on edge all day, so that her feelings were easily hurt, and her brothers and sisters became, as they thought, justly impatient at what they considered her silly babyishness.

From Nerves and Common Sense by Call, Annie Payson

It is nothing but a farce, mere babyishness.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 by Dodge, Mary Mapes

Fluff, for all her extreme fairness and babyishness, had not a doll's face.

From Frances Kane's Fortune by Meade, L. T.