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

While it's an hour of comedy that revels in its own puerility, it's bolstered by some fascinating research.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2013

Good Heaven! before a scene like Gavarnie, what true artist must not fling away his colors and his brushes in despair and disgust with his own puerility and impotence?

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

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

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

In poetry his taste was strictly national and didactic; he began as a disciple of Cats, nor could he to the end of his life tolerate what he called “the puerilities of Shakespeare.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various