Meanings
- not comparableIn a childish manner.
1 more example
I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, and since (as the psychotherapist, as well as the rapist, will tell you) the limits and rules of such girlish games are fluid, or at least too childishly subtle for the senior partner to grasp—I was dreadfully afraid I might go too far and cause her to start back in revulsion and terror.
1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC, page 115
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Translations
Estonian lapsikult
- lapsikultin a childish manner
Finnish lapsellisesti
- lapsellisestiin a childish manner
German kindisch
- kindischin a childish manner
Hungarian gyerekesen
- gyerekesenin a childish manner
Polish dziecinnie
- dziecinniein a childish manner
Portuguese infantilmente
- infantilmentein a childish manner
Romanian copilărește
- copilăreștein a childish manner
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