How To Use Childish In A Sentence

National Provisions Company, and went out preaching fiat money and a subtreasury for the farmers 'crops, trusting to God and the flower garden about his little white house, to keep the family alive -- it is odd that Jeanette's childish impression was that General Ward was a man of consequence in the world. A Certain Rich Man
The lustrous gipsy – face drooped over the clinging arms and bosom, and the wild black hair fell down protectingly over the childish form. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.
Jon's suite, which makes up the entirety of the original Concerto record, is nothing better than a bad mixture of hard rock soloing and a rather childish idea of classical music.
But Ruben liked to pick and pick at her until she exploded so he could turn around and call her childish.

I gave a small laugh and gazed at the ceiling, feeling monumentally stupid and childish.
Star Trek didn't just offer the illimitable joys of William Shatner tumbling out of his chair every time the camera shook, or yet another sermon from the pen of Gene Roddenberry about how organized religion is a childish superstition.
She took a deep breath and mentally berated herself for being so silly and childish.
In a childishly vain manner, she was gathering pillows to throw at him.
Mr. Wilson, standing butt naked and covered from head to toe in slime before a joint meeting of Congress, should apologise to the President and the American people for his crude and childish behavior. First on the Ticker: GOP heckler blasted by 2010 challenger
The real monster in them, he said later, is the amused narrator, ‘the young foreigner who passed gaily through these scenes of desolation, misinterpreting them to suit his childish fantasy’.
I also banned her IP, because if she's going to be childish, she can do it someplace else.
They correct none of the childish nasty tricks, which they get at school; nor the illiberal manners which they contract at the university; nor the frivolous and superficial pertness, which is commonly all that they acquire by their travels. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Her statement that boys of fifteen should put aside childish things like ball games suggests a massive chip on her shoulder.
He has passed sentence of condemnation upon Lycidas, and has taken occasion, from that charming poem, to expose and ridicule (what is indeed ridiculous enough) the childish prattlement of pastoral compositions, as if Lycidas was the prototype and pattern of them all. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
Watson's interests, was (if my childish remembrances do not greatly mislead me) the iracund Lord Thurlow. Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1
To be even more blunt: If the entire haruspical tradition is from the Near East and related closely with Babylonian or Hittite religion which share the same practices, then why aren't Etruscologists doing the sensible thing and putting away their childish toys namely Capella's fictitious poetry and picking up a book on Babylonian or Hittite divination practices in order to understand Etruscan religion more competently? Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 4
But his childish repetition of gritty details makes A Million Little Pieces not only tedious, but downright farcical in spots.
It sits rather uncomfortably between two camps: too childish for most adults, yet too gruesome for most children.
Mr Kenzler said: ‘It is good to be exonerated from vexatious and childish allegations.’
Etskae's childish voice rang out, clearly audible even over the sounds of battle.
Pity the insult thingy is damn funny in pointless childish way Compose Your Own Insult For Gordon Brown
He explained about the doctor's appointment, his admittedly childish reaction and my mom leaving the house in a huff.
I think that was all probably kind of childish and stupid but by this basic standard (a poseur is one who postures) isn’t the whole New Republic thing (with the exception of the unabashedly lib pieces) pretty much a national journal of poseurdom? joe from Lowell Says: Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
But it does balance that worry that it's all a bit silly and childish. Times, Sunday Times
Thus comes it that we take a final glance through two childish prison-houses, in far-separate Russian cities, wherein a youth and a maiden lie nightly dreaming the same dreams: one of them a spirit already bonded to the service of mind under the whip of circumstance: destined to storm rocky heights, from which hard-won eminences he shall command great views of sweeping plains and far-off mountain ranges; the other a pretty chrysalis on the eve of her change into a butterfly of butterflies; who is, nevertheless, to attempt flights overhigh and overfar for her frail wings; venturing to unfriendly lands whence she must return with frayed and tired pinions and a bruised and bleeding little soul. The Genius
As John noted, both networks '"journalists" used the rallies as an occasion for childish sexual innuendoes -- in the case of MSNBC, the same obscene teabag "joke" was repeated 51 times in a 13-minute segment. Who Ordered the Petard?
Adam cried desperately, crossing his fingers behind his back in the childish belief that such a gesture would absolve him. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
Spurning such childish gadgets, adults look for something top-end to show off their more sophisticated tastes.
This was one of the most childish displays of unprofessional conduct I've seen in the media ever.
Both have, however, one common ground on which they become indistinguishable, -- that region of the supernatural which is most primitive and most vague; and the closest relation between the savage and the civilized fancy may be found in the fears which we call childish, -- of darkness, shadows, and things dreamed. Two Years in the French West Indies
How very childish of her to refuse to speak to me!
From hero to zero in one childish argument. The Sun
He never dreamed that his request would be laughed off as a childish fancy.
This fixation our society has on rumor and sensationalism is childish. Tiger Woods Christmas Picture Shows PhotoShopped Tiger Beat Up by Wife
She did not stir hand or foot; she sat listening movelessly to the story, which came with such loving truthfulness from the lips of her childish teacher. Melbourne House
To do otherwise would be as childish and immature as my behaviour in the first place.
He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology.
Sidonie was an 'etagere' covered with childish toys, petty, trivial knickknacks, microscopic fans, dolls 'tea-sets, gilded shoes, little shepherds and shepherdesses facing one another, exchanging cold, gleaming, porcelain glances. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The next house was deserted, the door of the third place was slammed in his face before he could even make known his wants, and he was beginning to wonder if he must go breakfastless when a shrill, childish treble rang out clearly on the still morning air: At the Little Brown House
Whether they are actuated by folly and anile devotion, or whether by arrogance and malice so that they alone may be held to possess the secrets of God, I know not: this much I do know, that I find in their writings nothing which has the air of a Divine secret, but only childish lucubrations. Theologico-Political Treatise
‘So I've heard,’ came the reply, dryly, as the brunette began to carefully copy his name in childish cursive.
He felt that "the enemy," as in his childish days he had called the vicomte, was gradually making his approaches. Jack 1877
Bashir, who held an alms bowl in his left hand, moved toward the other student, who wore a skullcap with a childish design of roaring lions. The Omega Theory
Their continued threats that Obama "better pick Hillary" as his veep is just childish and moronic. Obama reacts to Clinton speech
Let them know that their childish tantrums will get them nowhere.
She stuck her tongue out at him childishly.
But he has an almost childish enthusiasm for the trucker's life. Times, Sunday Times
But he has an almost childish enthusiasm for the trucker's life. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the childishness was there, but the storylines seemed a little more ... something. New Releases, 03 January 2005
Both of them always revert back to their 305 childish positions of attack and defence. SEA MUSIC
It is very immature and childish to be making such a comment, to be thinking like that and putting that out there for people. The Sun
Collated, expurgated and presented in hardback form so many years after his death the journals show a childish, drug-addled man who often verged on a limited kind of brilliance through his songs.
Marco Reininger, a veteran and political science major at Columbia, wrote on The Huffington Post that, despite what he called the childish catcalls that greeted Maschek, the institution as a whole is neither as elitist nor as condescending as the media firestorm suggests. ROTC's return to universities a bumpy road
You are of course free to debate the books and characters here But if you cannot do so without resorting to the kind of snarkiness or rudeness that passes itself off as wittisism but is in reality childishness better suited to a grade school playground, then simply go. Crazy Screechy Monkeys 1, Best-Selling Author 0 « Whatever
She had her immature, childish moments, but there were times when she acted twice her age.
I mustn't argue with someone who's young enough to be cluey about childish arguments.
Turning away from childish games, she used to hide herself in retired chambers, that she might give herself up more completely to prayer; and by constantly reading the deeds of holy men, she was so inflamed with the desire of a more austere life, that she even laid a plan with her brother to run away from their father's house and to betake themselves to a desert place. 29 December -- St Thomas of Canterbury
It is very immature and childish to be making such a comment, to be thinking like that and putting that out there for people. The Sun
Childishly, I tried to run out of the room but instead collapsed to the floor.
He tires quickly, quarrels childishly, and competes with his 7-year-old daughter.
he acted very childishly
Does she not have the same right as the other councillors to offer fresh ideas, without fear of needless, unconstructive and childish bullying?
The portrayal of a 13-year old girl is remarkable for the textures captured in her silk dress and her hair while, despite the formal pose, the picture captures a childish awkwardness.
No matter how childish, no matter how petty or wrong she'd been I was always on her side.
To boycott a country on this basis is childish. Times, Sunday Times
To some it will come across as childish and silly but it had me in stitches. The Sun
These are songs they sing with such wide-eyed innocence that it sounds childishly naughty.
Its childish simplicity, with cheap cha-cha beatbox rhythm and wobbly guitar, is both disarming and strangely poignant.
It is very immature and childish to be making such a comment, to be thinking like that and putting that out there for people. The Sun
He is tasked with directing the school's annual play, assisted by his childishly hyperactive classroom assistant.
In a fit of childish fitfulness, I stomped my feet this morning and said I don't * care* if I'll pay for it later, I'm Not Working Today. Bunchalittlestuff
Either a quintessential cult record or another cocky slice of childish bombast, the CD is still a more personal confession than many of its posey peers.
Reading through the obnoxious comments and childish banter of a seeming pro-drug company to anything which suggests control of dangerous substances - illegal because they are dangerous - as a parent of a young person addicted for 17 years, my first reaction to the evident "huffed" attitude and pure polemic is that I am glad that there exists an anti-drug group in this country. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
Moved out of herself by the nearness of death, the titled dame had reverted to childish days, speaking her thoughts aloud. All Aboard A Story for Girls
Which is why childish things are back at the top of the agenda. Times, Sunday Times
Mathematum pulchritudo (saith [3327] Plutarch) ut his indignum sit divitiarum phaleras istas et bullas, et puellaria spectacula comparari; such is the excellency of these studies, that all those ornaments and childish bubbles of wealth, are not worthy to be compared to them: credi mihi ([3328] saith one) extingui dulce erit Mathematicarum artium studio, I could even live and die with such meditation, Anatomy of Melancholy
And this, perhaps the most personal of his films, gives full reign to his nervous personality quirks and childish enthusiasms. Times, Sunday Times
Such a convulsion is the struggle of gradual suffocation, as in drowning; and, in the original Opium Confessions, I mentioned a case of that nature communicated to me by a lady from her own childish experience. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
Us littery men I take to be like a pack of schoolboys — childish, greedy, envius, holding by our friends, and always ready to fight. The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
Their childish concerns and pleasures play out in a world of radiant heat and crisp shadows, tangerine sunsets and brilliant blue waves splashing against the Malecon.
But it does balance that worry that it's all a bit silly and childish. Times, Sunday Times
On this face and that wall, bullet holes decorated the next layer, of dumpiness and squarishness, prettied up on the front with plaster and with bright, childish advertising on the side. SeeLight:
I have a kind of childish way about me, I suppose, and that helps the film.
I may be an adult but stick-watching seems like a fun childish game to play, especially when the stick has a name.
It has grown a classic literary and graphic work over the last thirty years, due to the childishly naive, yet adultly irrational outlook of the writer and the illustrator.
This may sound childish to you, laugh all you want, but the pinky - swear is sacred.
I laughed at him loudly, pointing childishly.
The first two volumes were a little too silly and childish for my liking, yet it is a series that has a lot of fun to offer fans of anime, parodying pretty much every genre and major show in the history of animation.
The conflict over the caricatures, like almost any other of a religious nature or pretext, is childish and trivial and should be a work of fiction. Totem And Task
I'M GETTING SICK AND TIRED of the right wing nut jobs and their childish behavior, their ranting & raving and threats to congressman in townhall meetings ... and their scare tactics with the whole "just you wait til 2010" crap ... give me a break! the way these racists ignorant idiots are acting, there's no way we're going to allow them to continue holding seats in office!!! Republicans react to jobless report
In future, fans will have to put up with childish tantrums, spoilt behaviour and spats from aspiring business moguls who actually claim to be grown up. Times, Sunday Times
Kenworthy, taking childish pleasure in wearing the straw Stetson, was Nigel Parbold. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
That is not a childish or immature need, but understandable and universally experienced as we try to cope with life's difficulties. Know Your Own Mind
I am impressed with the other family though, who kept their cool in the face of such childish behaviour and showed what decent people they were.
We eventually ran out of patience with his childish behaviour.
When he died of lung cancer at 76, not only his music, but many doughty values died with him, never mind that he had also been childish, even mulish, often at the wrong times.
But they were strange forms, cartoonlike images of hooded figures moving around in flat, childish landscapes. Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips
Both of them always revert back to their 305 childish positions of attack and defence. SEA MUSIC
Surprised at the childish attitude, they were about to snort, when his smart remark caught them off guard.
I realize that there are cultural differences at play here since you were raised in the UK, but generally, Canadian children are taught that tattletaling is unacceptable and childish behavior.
Barbie, that plastic icon of childish femininity, has appeared in many guises over a long but curiously unwrinkled life.
They cannot be allowed to get away with such childish behaviour. The Sun
I got angry with him and told him he was being childish and stupid.
As a child, he had shrunk from visiting the serpent house at the Zoo; and, later, when he had come to man's estate and had put off childish things, and settled down in real earnest to his self-appointed mission of drinking up all the alcoholic fluid in England, the distaste for Ophidia had lingered. Indiscretions of Archie
The timing was all rather childish. Times, Sunday Times
One day, she is asked to train a new girl, a childish imp.
My painting looks childish beside yours.
At worst some egregious minion had conducted a childish private enterprise.
All the hip hop and snide answers only make him even more childish and less sexually desirable.
And as, once he adopted the nobiliary point of view which for him overshadowed everything else, M. de Charlus was capable of the most childish extravagances, he told me, in the same serious tone as if he were speaking of the Marne or of Verdun, that there were most interesting and curious things which should not be excluded by any historian of this war. Time Regained
He had watched us walk on the moon, and yet remain childishly embroiled in a pitiful and pointless series of military conflicts from which there would emerge no winners. Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism
Yet at the same time, mixed in therewith, a curious strain of womanish, nay childish, weakness, appealingness. Marcella
I do remember some people scoffed at their name as childish hyperbole but we live in a world where megadeath caused by weapons of mass kaplooey is a real concern and the band is of this world ... you know what I mean. Archive 2004-10-01
Josephine greatly; but the child was growing larger, an indiscreet word lisped by him, a childish remembrance, the least thing, might offend Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
A Roman bride put away childish things—her toys and the miniature toga she had worn throughout infancy—and dressed in a straight white woolen dress tunica recta that she had woven herself on a special loom. Caesars’ Wives
it's time for you to put away childish things
There was a certain puerile joy in her, a childish excitement shone in her eyes.
What begins as childish curiosity turns into unpleasant, adult reality. The Times Literary Supplement
Adults, with a hankering for childish humour, will delight in his misadventures.
I guess that kind of childishness is just another aspect of our extra-specialness! Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Car Invention Myth
She derided my effort as childish.
Within half an hour my confidence and style excelled, resulting in much hilarity and a good dose of old-fashioned childish fun.
All childish schoolboy humour, no doubt, but we enjoyed it enormously and laughed ourselves silly.
Loving you, he should, in the name of common sense, be doing something that would give him the right to marry, instead of paltering around with those stories of his and with childish dreams. Chapter 19
It makes me childish and silly and excited. Times, Sunday Times
My cheeks flaming, I felt intense anger flooding my body - and not childish anger but real anger that made steam come out of your ears and possess your whole body.
John said he thought it was childish and silly, and that they had to be taken seriously now.
Recently, at the climate meeting, he childishly stormed out because no one liked his ideas.
Her blonde hair was a mop of curls framing her round childish face dominated by large brown eyes.
In fluting, childish voices, they spoke of their compassion for the poor and homeless.
But that kind of childish solipsism is part of what makes America so gosh-darn unique! Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Car Invention Myth
I felt his arms encircle my waist, and suddenly, we were five years old again, nothing mattered except our childish games, there was no war.
I am 25 years old, and I think that this elementary school bantering is childish, (this is going to get me flamed) and better left for the playgrounds. Supernatural Season Premiere Spoiler Pics : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
He had been much more cheerful lately, Emmie thought, and all her night fears suddenly seemed childish and silly.
She did not stir hand or foot; she sat listening movelessly to the story, which came with such loving truthfulness from the lips of her childish teacher. Melbourne House
This is shown by childish behaviour being seen by the parents as "bad" or "messy" or "out of control". Beyond Chaotic Eating
For a brief instant, he imagined opening the chest to find gold doubloons or the like but then the adult in him rose up and chastised his childish side.
When the three of them made it safely past Marsha and her insane, childish behavior, they sighed.
Judd Apatow has made a career of acknowledging childish piggy males -- and catering to their childish pigginess. Pineapple Express
She stared up at the sky with her large, childish eyes in an undirected awe, ‘I will not see them, will I?’
This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years.
Through his coprah trade Mr.M. knew the people well, and by his help I soon found two boys who had some vague notion of biche la mar, real savages, who served me well in a childish, playful way. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific
Its splenetic and arrogant final edition on Thursday also appeared as childish anger from staff.
It makes me childish and silly and excited. Times, Sunday Times
Several tracks convey the impression of a childish, playful imagination at work.
She's childish, sullen, moody and volatile, prone to outbursts of jealousy, weeping, rage and laughter.
The possibilities of the notes once again fill you with childish wonder. Times, Sunday Times
Thank you for always listening to my childish secrets and stupid rattlings.
With adulthood comes the putting away of childish things. Times, Sunday Times
Even at 35 you still get that same sense of childish excitement when you notice that it has been snowing overnight.
It's just so silly and childish. Times, Sunday Times
To some it will come across as childish and silly but it had me in stitches. The Sun
He loves football with the childish wonder of a septuagenarian World Cup winner. Times, Sunday Times
I still have a childish thrill of the prospect of going to the fair especially when it is in the old market place of Devlzes
That childish hope that the world is a good place, I retain, and I think that is childlike.
Like Elton John before him, he has also hooked up with a tunesmith who can turn his sometimes childish lyrics into late-night singalongs.
The walls here are covered in childish murals painted by the women.
As luck would have it, he had never seen anybody sketch before, and was childishly delighted.
The little girl spoke in a high childish voice.
Naturally, I was overcome by a childish urge to catch the system napping. Times, Sunday Times
She was small and mousy, about a head shorter than me, and she childishly hugged the books she held against her chest like an elementary schoolgirl.
Soprano Juliane Banse's fruity voice is neither childish nor stereotypically innocent, but her diction and sensitivity to words are exquisite.
Observers should report with especial care all cases of unusually close relationship between children in youth, such as childish favoritism, "platonic friendships," "chumming," in school or home, etc. The Story of the Mind
It's hard to believe there's still a fan base for a guy who stutters childish rhymes over canned reggae beats.
I remember thinking that, and may have made a significant advance toward weaning myself away from childish ways and thoughts.
Where do they get the authority and encouragement to practise their childish, schoolyard insolence and contempt of our leaders?
Request," which, aside from one or two flecks of art, are trashy; and two childish namby-pambies, "Adelaide" and "The Mill. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
Palins suggestion of DEATH PANELS regarding her son or the elderly is as childish as 1st grade antics Obama slams 'outlandish rumors' on health care plan
Certainly the French father might have followed the custom of his class and country, and coerced his young daughter into the acceptance of any husband he might have chosen for her; but he did not feel disposed to use harsh measures with his only and idolized child; he rather preferred to exercise patience and forbearance toward her, until she should have outlived what he called her childish caprices. The Lost Lady of Lone
She had given up on her childish notions about love, sex and romance and had come to the inescapable conclusion that everyone who believed in it was naive or ignorant or both.
It wasn't a dream, a hallucination, or a figment of my wild, childish imagination.
It has more to do with spinning a fantasy world, and Hollywood is rather childish about gay actors.
He, having had this son, to whom he gave the name Giotto, reared him conformably to his condition; and when he had come to the age of ten, he showed in all his actions, although childish still, a vivacity and readiness of intelligence much out of the ordinary, which rendered him dear not only to his father but to all those also who knew him, both in the village and beyond. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi
Being sick is bad, bad, bad, childish and despicable, unappealing and unladylike.
It is very immature and childish to be making such a comment, to be thinking like that and putting that out there for people. The Sun
this is a harmlessly childish game
These issues to me are far more important than childish name calling and are really what we should be spending our time reforming.
As childish as it sounds, I think my disinterest comes from the lack of physical action in the book. Confessions of a Comic Book Nerd
In a childish moment I picked the scab from my football knee (footballers who play on AstroTurf always have scabby knees) dark red blood flowed down my leg.
Usually, I touch the cornerstones on the buildings, but Aunt Issa had said men would know I am a child from my hands and such a childish move.
His childishness is acerbated by Watson's impending nuptials to Mary Morstan Kelly Reilly, an act that threatens to take away Holmes's favorite toy. Sherlock Holmes
She alternates dizzily between childish giddiness and a sort of stoic, pursed-lips silence her interpretation of the model "pout" she sees on TV. Archive 2008-01-01
Nonetheless she was reassured that within the school childish innocence persisted. Times, Sunday Times
These actions almost cost their team 15 yards in penalties and the police were called to the sidelines to ensure no further childish antics would occur.
So, get off your childish rants and consider the future of your children and not vote emotions like "Oh I'm voting McCain becaus eObama goes golfing" .. Couple divided on what happens next
There was a certain puerile joy in her, a childish excitement shone in her eyes.
It is very immature and childish to be making such a comment, to be thinking like that and putting that out there for people. The Sun
Planted between chromatic saxophone swells, honeydew tongues of piano and eddying synth pulses, the childish coo of Caroline Lufkin discloses a fey, unabashed sentimentalism that is hard to dislike.
Europe: I mean a month at least, taking the bark even to supererogation, that is, some time longer than Dr. Middleton requires; for, I presume, you are got over your childishness about tastes, and are sensible that your health deserves more attention than your palate. Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
What he said was petulant and childish. The Sun
One of the guys is obviously the artist, and he is jovial, almost childish in his delight.
That is not a childish or immature need, but understandable and universally experienced as we try to cope with life's difficulties. Know Your Own Mind
The problem I am having is his childish ex-wife.
Alex followed behind him meekly, feeling dumb for her childish outburst.
Since I do not spend my time with childish pranks and games, they don't see me as one of them.
Eleanor heard her exclaim; and as she took them from Mr. Stuart's hand, she kissed the purple blossoms with childish delight, and put some in Euphemia's straw hat. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
The term nipper tipping is a combination of the WWII epithet for the Japanese and the childish prank of tipping sleeping cows. Silly Immigrants, Canada Is For White People
Salinger and Nabokov, somewhat; and, thanks for the tip, Katie; haven't read Billy Childish; now, will try to find a used copy for povert poets, natch. For laughs ...
They wander wearily through the mazes of psychological detail or wage almost childish logomachies over the interpretation of each other's essays. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge

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