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Definition of "unchildlike" [unchildlike]

  • Not childlike; inappropriate for a child to do or be (adjective)

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Use "unchildlike" in a sentence
  • "During its passing she lived through a wild, unchildlike woe of which she never spoke to anyone about her."
  • "'It would be better to make friends of the Salamanders than to force them,' he had written in his unchildlike hand."
  • "The child, and its unchildlike concerns, has been a leitmotif of what could be called the Iranian Ongoing Wave: to the joy of cineastes; to the annoyance of the proudly low-brow."
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