babyish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for babyish
Adjective
  • The childish use of vulgar profanity simply leads peoople to view the speaker as being unable to express his/her view.
    Letters to the editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2025
  • One standout was Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen running around the palace like a childish tyrant.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This doesn’t sound like their mess to clean up, and just sounds a bit immature/entitled.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Children and adults pick up an avalanche of unreliable information on social media, and children may process it with immature judgment.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the sparring, intellectual parents to two adolescent sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline), The Squid and the Whale responds to some of Baumbach’s own experiences as a product of divorce in the 1980s.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
  • One of the main jobs of the adolescent human is to pull away from their parents in preparation for adulthood.
    Cyndy Etler, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Both Mike and Harriet were juvenile commissioners assigned by the city of San Francisco to mentor boys and girls.
    Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley, CBS News, 4 May 2025
  • Related Stories The result is a passably diverting curio that remains on the level of juvenile fantasy adventure, but with gratuitous elements inappropriate for younger viewers.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 May 2025
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“Babyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babyish. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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