infantile
Example Sentences
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He communicated to him using colorful pictures and big charts and made note of his infantile preferences and catered to them.
From Salon
The only slice of poetic justice here is that these unhappy, infantile losers will be saddled with massive student loan debt and yet entirely unemployable for 10 years after graduation until they actually grow up.
From Washington Times
The pope urged for cooler heads in the face of an “infantile and destructive aggression that threatens us, before the risk of an enlarged Cold War.”
From Seattle Times
Francis, who was visiting Malta, said “some potentate” had unleashed the threat of nuclear war on the world in an “infantile and destructive aggression” under the guise of “anachronist claims of nationalistic interests.”
From Washington Times
It obliterates nuance, replacing it with an infantile binary universe of us and them.
From Salon
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