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Example sentences for: childish
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The NYT quotes an American official saying it was just the Israelis' "childish ploy," intended for domestic Israeli consumption.
Of course, no sophisticated person would indulge in this kind of childish mockery.
The childish exclamation peeyoo! , for instance, probably stems from a distorted rendering of phew! , just as another air-and-spit expression of disgust was once rendered as pfui! but gradually turned into fooey! , which is both easier to read and pronounce.
As André Breton wrote of fictionalization of actual events: "I do not regard such a thing as childish, I regard it as monstrous.
They were gross, childish stag affairs: In plain sight of everyone, one colleague would caress her thigh, daring her to make him stop and inviting all the men in the room to giggle.
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