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Recent Examples of infantile The infantile abomination that is The Boss Baby is the most unhinged example of the studio’s manic folly. James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025 But, true to form, Abbott doesn’t self-righteously shove these issues in our faces, lecturing on about statistics or writing the students as infantile or helpless. Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025 Social media users obsessed over every new documentation of her teething and tumbling and infantile antics, and the followers of the zoo’s TikTok, Facebook, X, and Instagram accounts skyrocketed. Chad De Guzman, TIME, 27 Dec. 2024 Though her infantile husband and his family treat Anora as a disposable plaything, Madison gives her a thrilling pugnacity — while at the same time locating the pathos of her emotionally bruising ordeal. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for infantile
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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
  • The treatment was derived from human embryonic stem cells, which researchers had coaxed into becoming immature brain cells called neuron progenitors.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Despite her experiences, Ellie is still emotionally immature, seeing independence as its own authority.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 7 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
  • For juvenile whales in particular, who spend more time near the surface and often explore coastal shallows, the risk is acute and growing.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Video footage shared by the Institute shows the nearly one-foot-long juvenile squid floating at a depth of approximately 1968 feet below the waters around the South Sandwich Islands, a volcanic archipelago located between the tip of South America and Antarctica.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Infantile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantile. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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