childishness

Example Sentences

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“South Park” is not immune from childishness, to put it mildly, and there is an element of “worst thought, best thought” in its humor; Parker and Stone are all in on scatology and dumb puns.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

Resigned to the privileged childishness of her dominant lover, the narrator comes to a clearer understanding of her own human fallibility.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

If you knew what lovely neighbors they are, I think you might regret your childishness.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022

As hilarious as their childishness was as young men, it's even funnier and a tad more haunting when viewed in the form of late middle age folds and sags.

From Salon • May 20, 2022

Perhaps there was something childish about all the paladins of Arthur’s story—if being simple b the same as childishness.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White