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Example sentences for "unchildish"

Lexicographically close words:
unchaste; unchastened; unchastity; unchecked; uncheered; unchildlike; unchilled; unchivalrous; unchristened; unchristian
  1. He stood as he had stood before, his small, old, unchildish face turned up to the German, his black eyes fixed unwaveringly upon her gray ones.

  2. His unprepossessing face looked as if he pulled his childishness together with an unchildish effort.

  3. The helpless rage in the unchildish eyes, the shaking voice, as he cried out in answer, were a shock.

  4. Her thin little chest was heaving up and down, and she spoke in a strange, unchildish voice.

  5. Sometimes, while she was in the midst of some harsh and cruel speech, Miss Minchin would find the odd, unchildish eyes fixed upon her with something like a proud smile in them.

  6. It seemed very like it, for from that day their strange, unchildish purpose grew and ripened, and never for an hour was absent from the mind of either.

  7. Her shrewd eyes swept the child's tense little face with its long, Eastern eyes and the mouth that showed so vividly scarlet against its unchildish pallor.

  8. The stern and already rigid profile of her face looked as though chiselled of marble too, and the smile on her pale lips was full of an immense unchildish misery and sorrowful appeal.

  9. But at heart she was a good-natured woman, and her indignation disappeared before the unchildish pain and weariness of Mary's face.

  10. She said nothing, but her eyes rested on her grey woollen skirt, faded by wear and the weather, and she had an unchildish sense of the incongruity of her presence as a visitor in Lady Anne's house.

  11. He might have been forty judging by his hard, unchildish expression.

  12. He faced Margaret, his eyes shrewd with unchildish wisdom.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unchildish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.