childish

Resorting to Santa, a childish character in whom adults should not believe, shows how desperate I was.

We are not "equal" and you are not an ally if this is the childish base of your notions.

The slimy, childish, petulant Viserys starts off as a symbol of everything about Targaryen rule Westeros has rejected.

Why turn a genuine good-news story into an expression of childish pettiness?

It seems to be attempting satire in the vein of a Grand Theft Auto game, but, like GTA is occasionally, it just seems childish.

The gorgeous sushi chef he meets and falls in love with, Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung), is equally silly and childish.

In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.

One of the simplest of these childish tricks is the invention of an excuse for not instantly obeying a command, as "Come here!"

There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.

Could this be the safe old house in which childish days had passed, in which all around were always friendly and familiar faces?

Here, as in so many of these childish admirations, we have to do not with a purely æsthetic perception.