puerility

The school officials’ contention that C.G.’s post was “hate speech targeting the Jewish community” was as dumb as his joke and confused puerility with animosity.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2022

The duo is signed to Fueled by Ramen, an imprint probably best known for putting out the work of Fall Out Boy, and they share an insistent puerility and melodic flamboyance with their pop-punk labelmates.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2016

Ridicule, mocking, insults that aren’t profane, and simple puerility aren’t going anywhere.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2015

The technology surrounding them has advanced since “The Lawnmower Man,” but the pungent bouquet of puerility and superstition remains.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014

We miss even the objections raised by modern grammarians, the idle conceits, the play upon words, the puns, the improbability, the extravagance, the absurdity, the obscenity, the puerility, the bombast, the emphasis, the exaggeration.

From Shakespeare in the Theatre by William Poel

But never, in all this history of feuds and charley-horses, have these two famous universities been driven apart by such puerilities as those which caused the decision of the Princeton Board.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reid's work, he concedes, has "puerilities and longueurs."

From Time Magazine Archive

Others question this, declaring that it is only because he is capable of Arising from puerilities to superlatives, that his best seems better than another man's.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a mass of trivialities and puerilities; to recite it would be to make even a barber or a bartender beg for mercy.

From Time Magazine Archive

After this I set myself to examine his terza-rima poem, and had no difficulty in exposing a long list of stupidities, improprieties, puerilities, and injustices.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi