adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
things
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It was time to put away childish things .
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When I was a child, my speech, my outlook, and my thoughts were all with childish things .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He said he wouldn't go out with us if Jerry was going too - he's so childish !
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I'd like you to explain your childish behaviour.
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the childish joys of cotton candy and carousels
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You know how childish he can be.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He made her feel cheap, disloyal, childish and socially inferior.
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He said it with a childish wonder that touched her.
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I know that sounds very childish and naive, but think about it.
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I suppose it was childish of me, but I vowed to break Sir Thomas's, if I could.
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I told Vivienne I thought it was stupid, just childish .
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Lee looked out over his half-moon glasses almost like a childish madman.
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Yet the stakes involved were not childish .