childish

Example Sentences

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"It's really nostalgic and cute. Like some 2000s cute aesthetic," she said, admitting that some people her age "just don't like it or think it's childish".

From Barron's

After 3½ decades of Francoism, during which, the author reminds us, the dictator “decided that Spaniards were too childish to govern themselves,” there was a palpable sense of a nation orphaned.

From The Wall Street Journal

Such a strategy would be a childish way for this adult man to act.

From Salon

This train of thought may sound childish, but bear in mind that Penelope had muddled through without her parents for many a year.

From Literature

There was the picnic hamper of sandwiches, the trunk full of supplies, the cave walls full of Beowulf’s childish scrawls.

From Literature