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The phrase "childish about" can be grammatically correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe someone or something that has behavior or qualities that are immature or typical of a child. Example: "The taunting and teasing between the siblings was getting out of hand, with both of them being equally childish about the situation."
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Look, there's nothing childish about kites.
Isn't there something a bit... childish about that?
P. S.: Let's not be childish about this".
There is something sweetly childish about the Oscars.
Yet there is nothing childish about his musicianship.
The 48-year-old Obama is skinny and getting skinnier, but there's nothing childish about him.
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"Childish witterings about 'self-appointed judges'; shock-horror stuff, feeble navel-gazing.
He would make no more efforts to answer Louise's childish questions about Italy and China.
So when did we develop such a childish mentality about the food eaten in other cultures?
The two men have a childish contest about who has the sharpest sword, which isn't even subtle in its symbolism.
Matar uses a supple literary voice that conveys his narrator's childish confusion about what is taking place around him (his alcoholic mother's "medicine," for instance) while letting us glimpse the darker adult realities.
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