puerility
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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
As a member of the British Parliament his speeches were of a thoroughly commonplace kind, usually marked by some attempted smartness that but showed the puerility and poverty of his brain.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
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
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
By aiming at popularity, the language was often reduced to the lowest strain, and to mere puerilities.
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John
