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Meanings of babyish in English

Babyish.

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Usage of babyish in English
1
The flushed babyish face under the fashionable hat looked at him askance.
Delia Blanchflower
2
The author does not wish to say it is babyish to cry.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
3
It seems so babyish for me to be going to night school.
Martin Eden
4
You have not been babyish at all, but most brave and heroic.
Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
5
Laura screams even louder, and it's still emerging as a babyish cry.
Sagittarius Is Bleeding
6
Why then draw back from this interesting lobbyist with such babyish repulsion?
Democracy, an American novel
7
They were, young Maggie thought, beautiful in a simple, babyish way.
Dante's numbers
8
He was embarrassed at the way he sounded: stilted, almost babyish.
Purple heart
9
And yet the notion of a powerful love potion inflamed my babyish imagination.
NY Magazine
10
It is ever so much prettier; Catie is so babyish, she urged him.
The Brentons
11
He is still a bit babyish, but he is maturing all the time.
The Irish Times
12
She had delicate aquiline features and a small, babyish red mouth.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
13
Her eyes were clear, grey, and open, almost babyish in their rounded innocence.
Waysiders, Stories of Connacht
14
He declares that what you are about is mad and babyish.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
15
He was of an age when a babyish diminutive becomes a thorn unspeakable.
The Henchman
16
She was shorter, slimmer, paler than her sister: of a certain babyish prettiness.
Septimus
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