childishness

Example Sentences

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In 1994, Amos talked about the "healing properties" of the color pink, which we might at first associate with softness, with childishness, femininity and with love.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 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

The childishness, which isn’t overplayed, hints at something stunted in these otherwise quite capable adults.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2021

They’d seen things our parents hadn’t—things that Craig and I, in our raucous childishness, couldn’t begin to guess.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama