How To Use Childishly In A Sentence
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I feel like I'm supposed to have read some Jane Austen at some point, but I haven't, and I won't, and I've kind of childishly dug in my heels about it.
This Thursday's Made For Meme-ing
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When not behaving adolescently, the grown-ups behave childishly.
Times, Sunday Times
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And they childishly trifle who make a pretext for their idolatry, in the words dulia and latria, [455] since the Scripture, in general terms, forbids adoration to be transferred to men.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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He paused, waiting for the cruel and actually childishly stupid words to sink into my thick brain.
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On the eve of the competition, journalists were charmed by her childishly serious air.
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On an iffier note, Jorgensen over-exaggerates the eccentric mannerisms of Moody, who's seen curling up childishly on his office couch in a fit of nerves one minute and working the phone feverishly the next: A slight staginess clings to this neurotic figure.
'Golden Boy's' soft touch lands hard knocks
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I was childishly elated to be on the electoral roll for the first time, after 20 years of residential disenfranchisement.
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Carol is constantly being reprimanded for her childishly irresponsible antics by her disapproving child, Denise.
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In particular, it seems to me quite an inconclusion to give to the spirits of the dead, or to any other existences, good or evil (unless, indeed, by possibility to ourselves as magnetically and sympathetically influenced by some metaphysical potencies whereof we know next to nothing), the seemingly miraculous powers exhibited, however weakly and childishly, in numberless seances, privileged to possess among the company an ecstatic medium between (as is assumed) themselves and beings immaterial.
My Life as an Author
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And a nation which is treated like children will behave childishly, in perpetual reaction against its lack of licence.
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She was being childishly cheeky, and she had succeeded in getting on his nerves.
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Kapia acted very childishly in his remarks pertaining to that unfortunate incident, a sensible person would not even think of making such a remark.
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The users who complain about the changes are behaving childishly.
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The back cover has a childishly rendered cartoon cat.
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My long hair was once was kept childishly short.
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She knew she was acting childishly, but she didn't care.
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He glorified the idea of being "childishly pure," which makes excellent sense for a man pointedly unable to grow up.
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It is important to remember here that the style of television weather presentation on the BBC - sometimes called dumbed-down, patronising and childishly simplistic by critics - is controlled by BBC producers and managers, and not by the Met Office.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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We got the feeling his responses were childishly genuine.
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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
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She stuck her tongue out at him childishly.
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Childishly, I tried to run out of the room but instead collapsed to the floor.
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He tires quickly, quarrels childishly, and competes with his 7-year-old daughter.
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he acted very childishly
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These are songs they sing with such wide-eyed innocence that it sounds childishly naughty.
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He is tasked with directing the school's annual play, assisted by his childishly hyperactive classroom assistant.
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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.
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I laughed at him loudly, pointing childishly.
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In a childishly vain manner, she was gathering pillows to throw at him.
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Recently, at the climate meeting, he childishly stormed out because no one liked his ideas.
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As luck would have it, he had never seen anybody sketch before, and was childishly delighted.
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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.
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He came up with an idea he called "childishly simple."
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She stamped her feet childishly.
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Their talionic feelings toward President Bush could not be more childishly transparent.
President Bush deserves all our support and goodwill
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A deep poignancy in his voice made the expression childishly inadequate.
The Film Mystery
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How did Americans ever allow one man so blithely and callously and "childishly" wreck this nation?
Bill Katovsky: 13 Ways of Looking at the Inauguration