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childishly, adv.|ˈtʃaɪldɪʃlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a childish way. a. In a way befitting or proper to a child; in the manner of a child.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 804 My litel tonge If I discryven wold hire hevynesse, It sholde..childisshly deface Hire heighe compleynte. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 263/2 Little ones, that childishly crave for some small coin. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. v, Childishly-inquiring gray eyes. 1884M. E. Braddon Ishmael xxvii, A crop of fluffy curls frizzling childishly all over her head.
b. In a way not befitting mature age; in a puerile, foolish, or silly manner.
1553Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 10 Lactantius, childisshelye erringe denyed that, etc. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxxi. §12 As some have childishly imagined. 1656Trapp Comm. Matt. xxiv. 36 Many learned men, who have thus childishly set their wits to play in so serious a business. 1742Fielding Jos. Andrews iv. viii, You talk foolishly and childishly. 1879McCarthy Own Times (1880) III. xlv. 345 Childishly ignorant of many things. |