puerility
Example Sentences
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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
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
This infant, like the infants of Michael Angelo, and of what we possess of the ancients, teems with the man, but without that sacrifice of puerility observable in them.
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
