Example Sentences

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She remembers it became too "kiddish" when she was about 13 and she started shopping at Primark instead.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

He uses more of the muscles in his face and has a kiddish smile.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2018

Oh, my darling—what a shame! oh, I am a brute, a kiddish brute.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

I’m fourteen, you know, but if I’d been four I couldn’t have acted more kiddish.

From Those Dale Girls by Carruth, Frank Weston

"I won't, but I'm so happy that I'm kiddish!"

From The Bachelors A Novel by Orcutt, William Dana