Examples of use of grown-up
1. So will a grown–up traveller enjoy his grown–up homeland?
2. We have become a grown up party capable of leading a grown up nation.
3. I was so stunned, I was really mortified that a grown–up would do that to another grown–up.
4. One word springs to mind ‘childish‘, sorry if she can‘t be a grown up she shouldn‘t play grown up games.
5. But this aspired to be, and for most of the time was, a grown–up speech to what Mr Blair himself described as a grown–up party and a grown–up nation.