Her child behaves precociously. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a precocious child. From Dictionary.com.
Sometimes Son is precociously aware of my sadness. From Wordnik.com. [A hard day.] Reference
And being a precociously talented singer, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Alicia Keys: Up The Duff] Reference
The omission was instinctive and precociously derived. From Wordnik.com. [My Dark Places]
Gladwell describes Pablo Picasso as precociously talented. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Sherman: Election Selection: Precocity or Mastery -- Which Will Voters Choose?] Reference
He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
I hath returneth what a precociously irrefutable preponderance!. From Wordnik.com. [YMCA CAT DANCES FOR YOU - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
And you can see the power lines resting precociously right there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2006] Reference
"She doesn't look like a summer girl, Daddy," Mandi said precociously. From Wordnik.com. [The Summer Girl]
It was also arguably too passe for such a precociously self-conscious innovator. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away]
Thanks to her precociously tall, lanky frame, she also began to excel at sports. From Wordnik.com. [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference
See huge close-ups of her precociously beautiful face, esthetically bruised and bloodied. From Wordnik.com. [Have A Heart, Hit Man] Reference
He was precociously good at the game, able to plot, set up moves, and think sequentially. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test] Reference
They flower precociously before the end of the dry season while grasses are still dormant. From Wordnik.com. [Western Zambezian grasslands] Reference
Five yards up the shoreline, a rusted red moped sat beneath a precociously flowering tree. From Wordnik.com. [Spider Bones] Reference
He was precociously good at the game, able to plot, set up moves, and think sequentially. '. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
Though precociously skilled, she was still capable only of minor, reasonably safe conjurations. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
Mangium flowers precociously in Sabah, and viable seed can be harvested 24 months after planting. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
He wrote a lively essay on its history and sang the praises of its precociously sophisticated design. From Wordnik.com. [The Networking Instinct] Reference
The bottle, I saw, sat precociously half full, and the bowl open before them held inviting lumps of sugar. From Wordnik.com. [kuniklos Diary Entry] Reference
It was a position to awaken precociously, one would think, the feelings of the quick-eyed, quick-hearted lad. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
There I acquired a precociously secular, scientific, and scholarly perspective on human history and institutions. From Wordnik.com. [About This "Mormonism" Thing] Reference
A SNOOTlet is a little kid who's wildly, precociously fluent in SWE he is often, recall, the offspring of SNOOTs. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry Canavan] Reference
'You see what my daughters are, Miss Helstone,' observed Mrs. Yorke: 'how precociously wise in their own conceits!. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
There can be no such thing as ‘directed science,’ because no one can precociously know from where solutions will come. From Wordnik.com. [One observer's report on the NAS panel « Climate Audit] Reference
But she had to be the sort of person who would nerdishly craft prose like that to please a precociously literary young man. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Plants flower precociously-at 15 months in southeastern Queensland-and produce heavy seed crops following good summer rains. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 48] Reference
Peter, Starkie adds, "was an odd kid," a brainy only child with precociously formal manners, adored and doted on by his mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil and W.W.D.] Reference
Brilliantly and precociously successful during the Civil War, he had then mostly, in the American West, watched his career stall. From Wordnik.com. [He Went Against the Peace Pipe] Reference
Sometimes his detachment stretched to retreating between the pages of a volume of poetry while the others chattered precociously. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Edge] Reference
As a precociously pious boy, he had considered Sphigx the least attractive goddess, a tawny-maned virago, more lioness than woman. From Wordnik.com. [Exodus From The Long Sun]
Only in its precociously professional standards of production and finish. From Wordnik.com. [Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures] Reference
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