How To Use Babyish In A Sentence
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Though the change was slight, he saw that they had both lost a little of their babyishness.
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Another ad, in the same series, depicts a man talking babyishly to his son.
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It must be confessed that there is a bit of a babyish streak in our cat.
ON CATS
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One of the attendees (11 years old) would not participate due to the babyishness of the bounce houses.
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For how is it possible to have trouvers and at the same time to call babyishly for your mother?
A Melody in Silver
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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
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The other was short, and scrawny, with a babyish pout and white blonde hair.
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Georgie's babyish voice sounded from the room behind his mother.
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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
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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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Her old Barbie bicycle was just too babyish, and besides, it needed a new tire.
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It was an eye eloquent with gratitude and babyishly blue.
The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel
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You can't help but be struck by the sheer befuddled babyishness of the apologists.
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In keeping with the association with babyish faces, weak chins are less common in movie villains than in more ‘innocent’ characters.
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I love to hear from you, and I'm ashamed of the babyish nonsense I write back.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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She glanced at the child she held in her arms, and he looked back with babyish love in his eyes.
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We can become enraged at schoolchildren who want to hold onto their babyishness, in much the same way as we are infuriated by prolonged breastfeeding.
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It's all so simple, really, so childish: Very simply and babyishly you trust them all and you say things thinking it all sounds so cute.
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If you start doing that kind of babyish thing again, I'll sit on you and bounce up and down till you cry for mercy, " said Diana.
The Rockingdown Mystery
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His soft babyish snores caused her heart to melt and a light smile played upon her lips.
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Sometimes it's a situation like Disney, where the book has been turned into a cartoon that is viewed as "babyish;" sometimes it's a book like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, where parents think that because the movie is OK for their child, so too are the books.
Archive 2006-08-01
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They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.
Seeds of Yesterday
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Like smoking, which I'd started at 12 and kicked at 15, I considered it a somewhat naff and babyish thing to do once you were legal.
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Yet I found it impossible to be angry with them for long, they were so babyishly innocent.
Mr. Standfast
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She looked so babyishly young, and so furiously cross.
Sunny Slopes
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Then you know how to act more grown-up on set and be ‘responsible’ except you still look good and babyish on screen.
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In an alternative title chase, managers could receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness
It's tight at the top of The Plonkership
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Its speaker confesses that he is 'bored stiff by beatless, babyish rattlings, / unmeasured metre men's feet can't march to'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Why does the media encourage such intellectual babyishness?
These ignorant atheist scientists keep missing the point
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Miss Orricourt persisted babyishly but with an extremely unenthusiastic glance at Troy.
Final Curtain
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Many seven to 11-year-olds revile her because she is a "babyish" reminder of their early childhood.
December 20th, 2005
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They were all turning 4 and they saw drooling as a babyish behavior, something they were proud to be leaving behind.
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Clearly, capable confident, can-do people are what Kruglanski dislikes and babyish, helpless people are his ideal.
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And then she added babyishly, ‘You can't make me.’
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Leonard pushed the rattle with his mitten and gurgled very babyishly for Mother, desperate not to be put to bed.
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The press could be being babyish; the military could be putting on a brave face.
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Then, he put on this little display in a babyish voice to impress me with how much he loved this little kiddy widdy, and he made me promise that I would name her Muddy.
The Skinny Kitten Story (In Which I Am Both A Liar And A Kitten Thief)
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Now, it seems, this babyish sentimentalisation of nature is regarded as a social attribute.
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She was a girl who had scant sympathy with what she called "babyishness", and disliked any exhibition of feeling.
The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
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There was too much shyness in her glance, too much babyishness about her mouth.
Marcia Schuyler
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In keeping with the association with babyish faces, weak chins are less common in movie villains than in more ‘innocent’ characters.
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She said she was terrified and couldn't remember how he got her out but she did remember the strange babyish voice he used.
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Do not blame, criticise or punish your child or call them dirty or babyish.
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But I suppose a boy thinks he is called babyish, if the name is fastened on him.
Holiday Stories for Young People
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Two or three years later these games are apt to seem "babyish" to a child and to lose interest for him.
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
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If the present goverment is 'babyish', then how about gracing us with an adjective for the now dead-and-buried ex MLP goverments!
Timesofmalta.com
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Oh and then just the pure babyishness of the adolescent politics in the damn thing.
Intertribal: the good thing is, I kept thinking of movies I liked, not movies I hated
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Her designs are playful, and even ‘cheeky,’ but never babyishly girly.
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I'm trying to bring him up properly - teasing him out of his babyishness, and making him stand on his own feet.
Five Go To Billycock Hill
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Haigh does not say so, but this is actually rather babyish.
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I like this baby bedding set at Overstock.com but it's not very 'babyish' in the sense of bunnies, teddy bears, bouncing frogs and whatnot.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Don't be surprised if there's some deterioration in your child's behaviour or a regression to more babyish ways.
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They told him it was babyish to cry.
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babyish tears and petulance
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It is considered "babyish," however, to resort to this unless there is some very good reason.
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
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Even when speaking, they do not say anything clever and many of them have a terrible, squeaky voice which foreigners think is babyish and unattractive.
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Its speaker confesses that he is 'bored stiff by beatless, babyish rattlings, / unmeasured metre men's feet can't march to'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Now she's nine, she thinks toys are babyish and wants a computer.
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Just as Formula One runs both drivers 'and constructors' championships, so the Premier League 2011-2012 should see the inaugural season of The Plonkership, in which managers would receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness displayed during everything from media outings to interactions with fourth officials.
It's tight at the top of The Plonkership
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So, all in all, and at the risk of being extremely babyish myself, I'd go so far as to say that my argument's bigger than yours.
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What struck me most about this story was not its babyishness: it was that such behaviour has become an anachronism.
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In the photos he still looks like a baby, isn't walking or talking, his face is much more rounded and babyish.
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One babyish blonde was wearing a sapphire pin the size of a dinner plate.
YELLOW BIRD
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But as his talk became clearer, his parents found that he was asking them for the names of the cars he saw and began saying Ambassador and Fiat in his own babyish voice.
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Her face is babyishly pretty, a contrast to her energy, which seems unstoppably self-assured.
Times, Sunday Times
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A picture sits on my desk at work from last summer, a picture that now looks babyish to me, with its softer, chubbier cheeks, its shyer smile, pudgier fingers, and shorter hair.
The Shape of Three: Reprise
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I recalled my first impressions of the girl: a weak-minded, weak-bodied, cry-babyish wimp.
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Anyway, I pray they will hold their babyish contests somewhere other than London.
