How to Use childish in a Sentence

childish

adjective

• She has a childish face.
• We're tired of their childish games.
• He opened the gifts with childish delight.
• I find his humor very childish.
• To try to escape those things was childish and anti‐novelistic.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Lila’s childish pages were the secret heart of my book.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 16 Jan. 2020
• Some childish games are way harder for adults to play than meets the eye.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2021
• The thing is, the childish anger expressed by Mars in Cancer can’t phase you.
  — Randon Rosenbohm, Allure, 30 Apr. 2019
• What sort of adult male speaks that slowly, in such a soft, childish tone?
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 31 May 2018
• What good does this kind of base, childish rhetoric do for any single one of us?
  — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 12 Oct. 2017
• Taj made a childish yelp, paddled back out, and the two traded three-foot tubes for the next hour.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2021
• Such tics may seem childish, but a lot of voters love this stuff.
  — Simon Shuster / Zurich, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
• The Warriors star was not going to be called childish over that.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 18 Jan. 2018
• Dear Amy: My boyfriend of almost three years is very childish.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
• Our childish dreams of how these things works have value.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
• The games are childish with grave stakes, which almost feels like a metaphor for life itself.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 6 Oct. 2021
• Who knew such a childish game could teach such valuable lessons.
  — CBS News, 10 June 2018
• DeChambeau has shown a childish side at times, for better and for worse.
  — Jason Lusk, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2021
• Techcrunch reacts to an embargo break in the most childish, toys-out-of-pram way.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2012
• As a teenager, there was a phase when Barbie thought her name was childish.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• This was very, very childish, for our president to say that.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2019
• This childish nitwit called the judge deciding his case a Nazi, which earned him an extra five months in the J6 choir.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
• The idea that one country could be the best in the world is such a childish and embarrassing concept.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 24 June 2022
• The Subaru seemed childish compared with the Scout, the engine going vroom vroom vroom.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• And their children, who weren’t quite old enough to get it, got it in a childish way, by playing a game upstairs.
  — Ed Symkus, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• Russell Brand and Noel Fielding’s childish contempt for the quiz is what made this show great.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
• Sansa is much too smart—and has survived far too much—to succumb to such a childish, gendered trope.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Apr. 2019
• Of the three, only the youngest, Cuki (Euris Javiel), still has an air of childish whimsy about him.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
• The exchange ended with both men accusing the other of acting childish.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
• That conservative politicians and pundits think is childish and mean.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024