childish

How to use childish in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for childish.

Home Featured words Jump to examples

Editorial note

Think reddit without the childish memes and BS.

Examples10

Definitions1

Parts of speech1

Quick take

indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of childish gathered in one view.

adjective

indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for childish.

adjective

indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"

Example sentences

Think reddit without the childish memes and BS.

To be honest, such an approach is frankly childish, and unhelpful.

Did anyone really need convincing that the Scroogled campaign was childish?

Plagiarism is a terrible problem, and it's childish of you to blame Google+ for it.

It was an anatomical joke, albeit a childish one on the level of potty humor.

See this childish engineer who was rejected by Horvath became angry at her and started ripping her code out.

An honest, humble, apology, and you wouldn't have people running around the Internet saying Paypal are a bunch of childish crooks.

Deliberately choosing to behave in a childish manner and annoy a judge is a dangerous game to play and can be self-defeating.

This episode is the childish and vindictive zenith of an amazing year of childish and vindictive behavior from Apple.

"... as a Python programmer, I was the member of an elite cabal of superhuman ultranerds, smarter than those childish Rails/JavaScript/PHP/whatever developers that couldnt write a bubble sort or comprehend even basic algorithmic complexity, but more in touch with reality than the grey-bearded wizards of Lisp/Haskell/whatever that sat in their caves/towers/whatever solving contrived, nonexistent problems for people that dont exist, or those insane Erlang programmers who are content writing sumerian cuneiform all day long.