Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
baby , or something associated with a baby.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chihuahuas are also very stubborn and the "human" or babylike manner in the way many are treated by their owners just exacerbates this problem.
Pets 2010
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Youth hit the streets with fashions that offer an overt assertion of babylike and childlike cuteness.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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Having been a preemie myself, I have to say that even my one-pound-thirteen-ounces self looked healthier and more babylike than this thing even when I was all hooked up to machines in what passed for an incubator back in the 1970s.
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If more people were more grown-up and less babylike, we could have cushioned the hurt we now face, but no, everyone had to have his induhvidual freedom in the form of a cul de sac house and a strip of pavement from everywhere to everywhere and no tax dollars for mass transit.
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Chihuahuas are also very stubborn and the "human" or babylike manner in the way many are treated by their owners just exacerbates this problem.
December 2009 2009
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If more people were more grown-up and less babylike, we could have cushioned the hurt we now face, but no, everyone had to have his induhvidual freedom in the form of a cul de sac house and a strip of pavement from everywhere to everywhere and no tax dollars for mass transit.
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He was sandy-haired, heavy, with a face made babylike from soft fat.
Mercy Falls William Kent Krueger 2005
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Apart from emphasizing feminine, neotonous babylike features a peak shift in the masculine/feminine facial features domain notice how the skin tones are exaggerated to produce an unrealistic and absurd ‘healthy’ pink flush.
The Cognitive Science of Art: Ramachandran's 10 Principles of Art, Principles 1-3 Chris 2005
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He was sandy-haired, heavy, with a face made babylike from soft fat.
Mercy Falls William Kent Krueger 2005
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It would be the easiest folly in the world to fall in love with her: there is such a sweet babylike roundness about her face and figure; the delicate dark rings of hair lie so charmingly about her ears and neck; her great dark eyes with their long eye-lashes touch one so strangely, as if an imprisoned frisky sprite looked out of them.
Adam Bede 2004
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