Crossword-Solution: CHILDISHNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Childishness | n. | The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “CHILDISHNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Second ___ (man's seventh age) | 1 answer |
| naivety | 6 answers |
| A PROPERTY CHARACTERISTIC OF A CHILD | 11 answers |
| fatuity | 18 answers |
| Frivolity | 38 answers |
| foolery | 45 answers |
| boloney | 45 answers |
| insanity | 54 answers |
| Idiocy | 55 answers |
| inanity | 61 answers |
| Folly | 66 answers |
| foolishness | 67 answers |
| Immaturity | 72 answers |
| Drivel | 75 answers |
| Absurdity | 75 answers |
| Baloney | 92 answers |
| Youth | 97 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHILDISHNESS (5)
But in merely looking at it one could not dismiss that impression of childishness which is the most charming side of Germany--those little pantomime, paternal monarchies in which a king seems as domestic as a cook.
Speaking of which,” I added, after I had drunk, “shall I not have the pleasure of laying my salutations in person at the feet of the Senora, your mother?” But at these words all the childishness passed out of his face, and was succeeded by a look of indescribable cunning and secrecy.
More a boy than he had ever been in his life, he gave himself up to all the childishness that makes first love the flower of life.
That little wish so naively uttered seemed to him the prettiest bit of childishness; he had never heard anything like it before; and he had wrapped the box up in a great many covers, that he might see Hetty unwrapping it with growing curiosity, till at last her eyes flashed back their new delight into his.
His aspect had a childishness such as might have induced a stranger to pat him on the head—pausing, however, in the act, to wonder what manner of child was here.
Quotes with CHILDISHNESS (3)
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange…
There are many things in our society masquerading as faith. What many see as faith may actually be just force of habit, patriotism, stubbornness, family pride, intellectual laziness, childishness, gullibility, or the effects of being brainwashed. The problem is that faith is kept separate from intellect, whereas God wants every part of a Christian, including his mind.
First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1972).