childish

Definition for childish

adjective as in immature, silly

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adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, frivolous, green, infantile, infantine, innocent, jejune, juvenile, kid stuff, puerile, unsophisticated, young

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Kelly: Are you still able to keep that same love and childish enjoyment now?

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Patricia also created a children’s book, titled “Joaquin’s First School Shooting,” which illustrates in childish drawings — and no uncertain terms — what exactly happened to her son and the other kids on that awful day.

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I am by age but we all act very childish around each another - very silly.

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Fox News anchor Trace Gallagher referred to the tone as “childish.”

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But as they grew up, they too started to see the brand as "childish" and stopped shopping there.

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