babyish

[ US /ˈbeɪbiɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /bˈe‍ɪbɪɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characteristic of a baby
    babyish tears and petulance
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How To Use babyish In A Sentence

  • Though the change was slight, he saw that they had both lost a little of their babyishness.
  • Another ad, in the same series, depicts a man talking babyishly to his son.
  • It must be confessed that there is a bit of a babyish streak in our cat. ON CATS
  • One of the attendees (11 years old) would not participate due to the babyishness of the bounce houses.
  • For how is it possible to have trouvers and at the same time to call babyishly for your mother? A Melody in Silver
  • The woman's strained nerves were on edge all day, so that her feelings were easily hurt, and her brothers and sisters became, as they thought, justly impatient at what they considered her silly babyishness. Nerves and Common Sense
  • The other was short, and scrawny, with a babyish pout and white blonde hair.
  • Georgie's babyish voice sounded from the room behind his mother.
  • Basil, though close on sixty, had moods of boisterous babyishness, and these seemed for some reason or other to descend upon him particularly in the house of his studious and almost dingy friend. The Club of Queer Trades
  • Maybe it's simply that like everyone else I found Tony with his babyish skin, his grand ideas and gentle indifference an irresistible target.
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