childlike
adjective
unchildlike
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a word derived from
childlike.
Example Sentences
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Look, the work declares in a most unchildlike way, in the world we have this, and this, and this; now let art try putting this next to that, and see what changes.
From Time Magazine Archive
But whether Bobby sings wistful or swingy songs in his reedy, choirboy voice, he goes at them with expert, unchildlike, vaudeville-stage punctilio.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a hard and unchildlike life that our little Rosanna leads here with me.
From The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins by Katherine Keene Galt
“Not an Indian woman?” asked Kit, and again her unchildlike mind worked quickly.
From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Robert Wesley Amick
He saw young children, with haggard unchildlike faces, and most unchildlike sharpness and callous greed, born of the premature "struggle for existence" that was written on their pinched young features.
From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Agnes Maule Machar
