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

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

Movie comedy, once a lively, if tilted, battlefield of the sexes, regressed into an aggressive puerility that was the flip side of macho superhero self-pity.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2012

Then there was no God, no spirit, nothing but puerility, madness, and deformity, in all that creeps, swims, and flies, especially in this ball that thinks, reflects, and weeps, and underneath devours and masticates.

From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. by Tieck, Ludwig