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Significados de childlike em inglês

Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.

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Befitting a young child.

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The answer is simple: 300 million years ago, there was no Atlantic.
BBC
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She articulated a clear, simple purpose; to tell people about that reality.
The Irish Times
3
Let the simple heart and hope among us Keep our family strong.
Radio NZ
4
A simple solution has emerged as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
The Irish Times
5
I pose this simple question: is our destiny with Europe or not?
The Guardian
1
All the ducks sat round-eyed in a circle about the mysterious singer.
Old Indian Legends
2
Flora, her hands buried deep in the soapsuds, looked at him round-eyed.
The Long Shadow
3
The boys scrambled on top of their forms, craning, round-eyed with excitement.
Shining Ferry
4
Trudie is silent and round-eyed, awed by the speed of the vehicle.
Those who save us
5
The two little girls, round-eyed and frightened, were sitting up in their cots.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
1
His great stories at bed time had made me wide-eyed with wonder.
News.com.au
2
In the interval the two children watched the orchestra with wide-eyed interest.
Fanny Goes to War
3
The engineer started up, wide-eyed and all alert now in the gloom.
Darkness and Dawn
4
I gasp and rise to my feet, staring wide-eyed at the paper.
Origin
5
The sightless sockets of the old moose stared wide-eyed down the river.
The Heart of Unaga
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Our newest dewy-eyed first-termer. He gestured from one person to the next.
The Name of the Wind
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Now we look back at those almost irradiated days with a dewy-eyed nostalgia.
News.com.au
3
I'm not a dewy-eyed virgin, she told herself, with some regret.
The Wolf’s Hour
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He had a tendency to turn dewy-eyed under its influence.
The Information Officer
5
Watching it over breakfast revived dewy-eyed memories of Mexico '70.
The Guardian
Uso de childlike em inglês
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The question Artsutanov asked himself had the childlike brilliance of true genius.
The Fountains of Paradise
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Bush couldn't speak of that; the childlike nature of America prevented him.
The new yorker
3
In fact, the manchild has become even more childlike in recent years.
The Guardian
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Especially since Thomas Nicasio hardly seemed childlike to her at that moment.
Explosive
5
The smile on the face of the Japanese was childlike and bland.
The Submarine Boys and the Spies / Dodging the Sharks of the Dee...
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She had almost childlike confidence in the tact of her unscrupulous mother.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
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He felt dimly in his childlike way the loneliness of his mother.
Lloyd George: The Man and His Story
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And with it all they are so childlike and so simple-theseheroes.
With Those Who Wait
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She wanted afterwards, she says, to recreate that childlike intensity of experience.
The Guardian
10
Perfectly composed, yet she still looked round the shop with childlike curiosity.
The Naked God
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And in her childlike way she asked her husband that very night:-
Together
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She went to meet the other in an eager, almost childlike way.
The Castle Of The Shadows
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The childlike pathos in this criminal's voice and attitude confused the listener.
A Son of the Hills
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The two girls looked at each other with the same childlike surprise.
A Ward of the Golden Gate
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What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics.
Orthodoxy
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There is a period of development in which grown men are childlike.
Among My Books. First Series
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