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

It was an extension of his general puerility, his weird clowning, his fake laughter.

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2019

Could there be a more honest example of his puerility?

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2018

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

We miss even the objections raised by modern grammarians, the idle conceits, the play upon words, the puns, the improbability, the extravagance, the absurdity, the obscenity, the puerility, the bombast, the emphasis, the exaggeration.

From Shakespeare in the Theatre by Poel, William