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

On the page, this bifurcation works, but on the screen it saps the story’s momentum, partly because there’s no violence in the room to distract you from the genericism and puerility of the dialogue.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2017

Why doesn’t any of this evidence of puerility hurt his image among his base?

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2016

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

Those who take pleasure in the details of such puerility may be referred to Hall’s Chronicle for them: we here have more to do with the hearts beneath the finery, than with the trappings themselves.

From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume

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

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

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

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

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