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puerility

[pyoo-uh-ril-i-tee, pyoo-ril-] / ˌpju əˈrɪl ɪ ti, pjʊˈrɪl- /






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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

Could there be a more honest example of his puerility?

From New York Times Jan. 19, 2018

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

The mere lovers of antiquity endured the raillery of the wits for the puerility of the plot, the vulgar humour, and the homeliness of the style.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

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

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

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

His puerilities and eccentricities, we are told, amounted almost to madness.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd




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