Childishly
['tʃaildiʃli]
Definition
(adv.) In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
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Examples
- Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy 'lemon-stunners'--a local sweetmeat--he presented an oyster-knife at the twins! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He let his hand fall, and for the first time in her life Mary saw old Peter Featherstone begin to cry childishly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I am ashamed you should have seen me acting so childishly, but, the fact is, there is a woman here who told me about it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Pussum was still asleep, sleeping childishly and pathetically. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Here am I, content to receive things childishly as they fall out, and I never take trouble! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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