He acted very childishly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : childish games. ,childish fears. From Dictionary.com.
A deep poignancy in his voice made the expression childishly inadequate. From Wordnik.com. [The Film Mystery] Reference
How did Americans ever allow one man so blithely and callously and "childishly" wreck this nation?. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Katovsky: 13 Ways of Looking at the Inauguration] Reference
Hey Alex, I can imagine how you feel when people start 'childishly' condemning your comments and your view of the movie. From Wordnik.com. [Bond Week: Official Quantum of Solace Review! « FirstShowing.net] Reference
KERRY: Well, nobody's reacting childishly to this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Election 2000: Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader Discusses Campaign - October 30, 2000] Reference
Too long has Loch Finne side been ruled childishly. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
I became almost childishly interested in small things. From Wordnik.com. [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference
She childishly edged her elbow away to keep it from touching his. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
Undine behaves most childishly and finally says that she has no soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
"And she died?" continued Fina, yawning in a childishly indifferent manner. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
The girl bobbed her head -- her quaint and childishly impetuous affirmative. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
She had grown very fragile by this time, and looked almost childishly young. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
She begs me not to be hurt and I am of course; at times severely and childishly so. From Wordnik.com. [The Beat of Sorrow] Reference
Finally, the alleged prince seemed to be a little childish -- childishly coy himself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2007] Reference
Yes, childishly simple with the key-word; and the key-word can be carried in one's mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
He childishly knocked my bottle of water to the ground and started laughing like a maniac. From Wordnik.com. [Panthera pardus] Reference
We have perhaps acted childishly and foolishly toward other nations by too great confidence. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
And you ought at any rate to be able to sell that fancy fox skin you play with so childishly. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
But Laura was still smiling when he looked up at her, almost childishly, for further directions. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference
Central Bank of India (Rs. 175) offers a childishly simple but compelling investment hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody Loves a Loser...] Reference
He might be working, but there was no reason why he should pretend to like it, he said to himself childishly. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
He was shallow, extremely vain, often childishly foolish, and disagreeably jealous of Johnson's other friends. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
How long ago was it, Arkady asked himself, that he and Pasha and Fet had childishly luxuriated in this office?. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
"No; it isn't a nice gown," she insisted childishly and still tried to escape, but he could be obstinate, too. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Upon which Miss Evelina, with a childishly-confidential air, raised herself on tiptoe, and whispered in his ear. From Wordnik.com. [Lewie Or, The Bended Twig] Reference
Once she was very close to flight; more than once, more childishly than she knew, she wished that she would die. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
He told himself that he acted childishly for even feeling the hurt, but that did not make it any easier to bear. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
And were this not so, yet should ye tarry here for your fair wife's sake, before ye risk your life so childishly. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Then in a moment of insight he picked up his manuscript and realised that what he had written was childishly crude. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship] Reference
You clearly relish a media that fawns over you, but does that mean getting childishly pricklish when some refuse to?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2008] Reference
She swayed, and put her hands out childishly for support -- any support that might steady her as her world went black. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
We can discover no trace of moral pride in her; all we discern is a childishly naive joy at her prospective happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
The voice was clear, loud, full, strident, at times, on the higher notes from over-exertion, but always childishly appealing. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
It pleased them, and they worked with a will, being indeed childishly eager to begin the bombardment before the time was ripe. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
And, his boy snuggled childishly in his arms, the minister prayed, as he never had prayed before, for the men gathered about the child. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
When they were in bed Stefan curled up childishly, and putting one arm about her, fell asleep almost instantly, his head upon her shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
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