childish

Example Sentences

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"It was a childish escapade that got out of hand very quickly with tragic consequences," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

It is unseemly, it is childish, and it is thoroughly un-American.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2025

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 • Nov. 28, 2025

The boy is unusually self-reliant and mature but also childish and understandably vulnerable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

"I am a busy man, with no time to waste with childish games."

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti