She was a girl who had scant sympathy with what she called "babyishness", and disliked any exhibition of feeling. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)
Oh and then just the pure babyishness of the adolescent politics in the damn thing. ❋ Intertribal (2010)
In an alternative title chase, managers could receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness ❋ Unknown (2010)
Just as Formula One runs both drivers 'and constructors' championships, so the Premier League 2011-2012 should see the inaugural season of The Plonkership, in which managers would receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness displayed during everything from media outings to interactions with fourth officials. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Why does the media encourage such intellectual babyishness? ❋ Unknown (2009)
I'm trying to bring him up properly - teasing him out of his babyishness, and making him stand on his own feet. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1957)
There was too much shyness in her glance, too much babyishness about her mouth. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill Lutz (N/A)
Basil, though close on sixty, had moods of boisterous babyishness, and these seemed for some reason or other to descend upon him particularly in the house of his studious and almost dingy friend. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The woman's strained nerves were on edge all day, so that her feelings were easily hurt, and her brothers and sisters became, as they thought, justly impatient at what they considered her silly babyishness. ❋ Annie Payson Call (1896)
"Confound my babyishness!" snarled Rathburn, stooping and pocketing his weapon. ❋ Unknown (1894)
Yet, she loved him for not knowing, for his boyishness, his babyishness, his simplicity. ❋ Martin Ross (1888)
Fluff, for all her extreme fairness and babyishness, had not a doll's face. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
Her voice somehow, as Lucy said afterwards, sounded like that of a grown-up person -- all the babyishness seemed to have gone out of it -- she did not cry, she stood there white as a sheet, clasping her hands in a way that went to Lucy's heart. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)
The babyishness of her round fat face, and her brown eyes looking quite ready to cry, touched Mrs. Fairchild, though it is fair to add that she approved of Alie's checking the child. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)
I'd misbehaved in some way and been scolded by my mother, but I felt so ashamed of my babyishness that I told him it was because I'd banged my head on the edge of the dining table. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"grown-up-ness" that went so queerly with his babyishness, should have so thrown himself on her mercy; to her nineteen years it seemed a wonderful and beautiful thing that a man of twenty-seven should find in her an anchor. ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)
