Definitions
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- adverb In a
babyish manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For how is it possible to have trouvers and at the same time to call babyishly for your mother?
A Melody in Silver Keene Abbott 1908
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They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.
Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews 1984
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They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.
Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews 1984
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They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.
Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews 1984
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They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.
Seeds of Yesterday Andrews, V. C. 1984
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They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.
Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews 1984
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She looked so babyishly young, and so furiously cross.
Sunny Slopes Ethel Hueston
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Miss Orricourt persisted babyishly but with an extremely unenthusiastic glance at Troy.
Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935
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It was an eye eloquent with gratitude and babyishly blue.
The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921
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Yet I found it impossible to be angry with them for long, they were so babyishly innocent.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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