unchildlike

During its passing she lived through a wild, unchildlike woe of which she never spoke to anyone about her.

Turning Books Inside-Out for Boys 2008

'It would be better to make friends of the Salamanders than to force them,' he had written in his unchildlike hand.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

During its passing she lived through a wild, unchildlike woe of which she never spoke to anyone about her.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

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.

Arts Extra: Iran's Newest Wave 2007

She never failed to act surprised -- the reward for my vast, unchildlike patience.

MOM ALWAYS MADE ROOM FOR ONE MORE 2007

The little stratagems she had devised to try him, the little tokens he had given in his childish way — not of dulness but of something infinitely worse, so ghastly and unchildlike in its cunning — came back as vividly as if but yesterday had intervened.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

But between her and David a friendship had sprung up, a strange, unchildlike but good friendship.

The Watch 2006

Elizabeth had a most unchildlike interest in how he had become so rich-well, perhaps it was not so surprising when she was always being told there was not money enough for this or that.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

Elizabeth was horrified; she flew into a most unchildlike rage, absolutely forbidding the dismissal of men who had carried her about, told her tales, and allowed her-with discretion'to play with their weapons.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

I looked at her in silence and wondered what had brought the unchildlike expression of sadness to her face which I now observed for the first time there.

Boyhood 2003