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Meanings of most childish in English

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Usage of most childish in English
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Here answered the smallest and most childish of the voices-thatof Luva:-
Lilith: A Romance
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It was a version of solitaire, but the simplest, most childish kind.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
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It's the most childish and sickly combination that I ever saw.
A Man of Samples. Something about the men he met "On the Road"
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To gratify the most childish vanity was the sole motive of the great proprietors.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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I am in the most childish temper with the doctor, and for no very definite reason.
Dear Enemy
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I was wearied out with mental conflicts, and in a mood of most childish, child-like sadness.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
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And the rule is often of most childish origin, beginning in a casual superstition or local accident.
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the pri...
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It is the most childish nonsense; but after all, how interesting and credible it must have been!
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume...
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She has long flaxen hair which hangs over her shoulders in the most childish way, though she's our age.
The Spanish Chest
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And drawn up to her full height, the most childish and obstinate of tragedy queens, she swept into her room.
The Marriage of William Ashe
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How eager I am to make the right impression, she thought, feeling her face settle into her most childish smile.
Lowboy
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In this latter mood he was capable (with the best intentions) of committing acts of the most childish imprudence.
The Black Robe
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This was very irregularly paid, for affairs were in a most confused and disorderly state, managed in a most childish manner.
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
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My nervous system was so greatly affected that I yielded to the most childish fears, and contemplated dying with indescribable horror.
The Monctons: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 2)
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But that day, the first time she danced for me, her body was saying the simplest, most childish thing, I'm bored, Makeda.
Sister Mine
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Have we not seen men of the world in our own time become the dupes of the most childish and absurd illusions?
Essays in Literature and History
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