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Definition of Childish

Childish

  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.
  2. Puerile; trifling; weak.

Childish Quotations

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
Christopher Meloni
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Childish Translations

childish in Dutch is kinderlijk
childish in German is kindisch, kindliche
childish in Hungarian is gyermekies, gyerekes
childish in Italian is fanciullesco
childish in Latin is puerilis
childish in Swedish is barnslig

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