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  • adverb In a babyish manner.

Etymologies

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babyish +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 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

  • They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.

    Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews 1984

  • They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.

    Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews 1984

  • They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.

    Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews 1984

  • They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.

    Seeds of Yesterday Andrews, V. C. 1984

  • They had such babyishly small voices that seldom said more than a few words at a time.

    Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews 1984

  • She looked so babyishly young, and so furiously cross.

    Sunny Slopes Ethel Hueston

  • Miss Orricourt persisted babyishly but with an extremely unenthusiastic glance at Troy.

    Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935

  • It was an eye eloquent with gratitude and babyishly blue.

    The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

  • 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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