That kid is so babyish! I wish he'd grow up already!. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.definition-of.com/Babyish]
babyish tears and petulance. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But I suppose a boy thinks he is called babyish, if the name is fastened on him. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Stories for Young People] Reference
It is considered "babyish," however, to resort to this unless there is some very good reason. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
Many seven to 11-year-olds revile her because she is a "babyish" reminder of their early childhood. From Wordnik.com. [December 20th, 2005] Reference
Two or three years later these games are apt to seem "babyish" to a child and to lose interest for him. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
And it is definitely growing with him, it doesn't look 'babyish'. From Wordnik.com. [ohdeedoh] Reference
He was of an age when a babyish diminutive becomes. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
"I wish it wasn't babyish to like toys," she sighed. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
He grew less babyish -- stronger both in mind and body. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
It was soft, it was high — a babyish, soprano tinkling. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse]
Our female Education is too superficial, trifling, babyish. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Elizabeth Walbert's babyish features were alive with animation. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Her babyish face looked white and wan in the clear morning light. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
I must have seemed flabby in those days, with a somewhat babyish look. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
| Reply | Permalink no they won't. hopefully they are not that babyish. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Camp Installs Another Hillary Operative In Key Ohio Slot] Reference
He thought Bob would not have thought much of him for it; it was rather babyish. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
The poem opens with some very babyish verses descriptive of an "old manor hall". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Her hand was babyish, dimples where knuckles would one day be, wrists barely defined. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Truth]
This state of things is childish — simply childish; or perhaps I ought to say babyish. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
Reporting it seemed a whining and babyish thing to do, running to the sergeant to tattle. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
The half pout on Charlie's babyish mouth, born of Constance's dread edict, died suddenly. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Joss Cope - How about arguing with facts and data rather than making such a babyish response. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
If Aunt Agatha had only seen him doing it, and me, with the babyish tears running down my face. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.] Reference
Rosanna had never thought about it at all, but now it seemed a very babyish and helpless thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day] Reference
You do not see the difference between innocence and spiritual awakening and babyish behaviour. '. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
I imagined you wearing braids, although that would have been too babyish a style for you by then. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
After talking of its 'bright coronet,' the ditty is wound up with this piece of babyish absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
Throughout his teenage and college years, he hid his furriness, thinking it was a "babyish thing.". From Wordnik.com. [Pleasures of the Fur] Reference
And Billy comforted me in his sweet, babyish fashion that I remembered he used when he was in kilts. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
Connected to which, it would be nice if the technologies of the future were not given babyish names. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Side Are We On? You Have to Ask?] Reference
Throughout his teenage and college years, he hid his furriness, thinking it was a “babyish thing.”. From Wordnik.com. [Pleasures of the Fur] Reference
His face, because of its full, clear, big, inscrutable eyes, had an expression which was almost babyish. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Her eyes were dark and bright, her babyish lips were full and scarlet, her nose was whimsically uptilted. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
The fearful composites were still judged as less mature and more babyish when compared with the angry ones. From Wordnik.com. [SCIENCE: LOOKING YEARS YOUNGER] Reference
It was very simple; she said it would have seemed babyish to Europeans, but it was an epoch to the natives. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
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