childishness

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022

Ah, so there is a thesis behind the Coin Crew childishness: Games, Bushnell and Salyh believe, are for everyone.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 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

But I suspect she’d have relished calmly collecting her notes and sauntering, not stomping, toward the exit to escape the tyranny of such childishness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022

Papa’s funeral was no time for us to express our selfish childishness, our American rebelliousness.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat