adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
youthful/childlike excitement
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Her voice was full of youthful excitement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Corbett had always liked Prince Edward; he had a roguish air, coupled with an almost childlike innocence.
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Julio Cesar Chavez has a carefree, almost childlike demeanor.
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She speaks with an almost childlike directness that wins over the most sceptical audience.
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Jean was a gentle soul, and almost childlike .
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I remember the helpless, almost childlike way he submitted himself to my ministrations.
■ NOUN
innocence
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Corbett had always liked Prince Edward; he had a roguish air, coupled with an almost childlike innocence .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She has a childlike way of looking at things.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although some of the Mites were as old as fifteen, because they were called Mites, their routines were always childlike .
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Corbett had always liked Prince Edward; he had a roguish air, coupled with an almost childlike innocence.
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His face was childlike and flaccid.
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Sometimes she became childlike and you could see her at eight or seventeen or twenty-five.
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Suddenly your grown-up veneer gives way to a childlike sensitivity that causes you to feel-within minutes-wonderful happiness and acute distress.
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The brothers are very childlike and I think that Lewis Carroll is reliving part of his childhood through this chapter.
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The wizards designing Macintosh considered it an open invitation to childlike play, and judged that ability among its chief attributes.