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

On the page, this bifurcation works, but on the screen it saps the story’s momentum, partly because there’s no violence in the room to distract you from the genericism and puerility of the dialogue.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2017

Why doesn’t any of this evidence of puerility hurt his image among his base?

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2016

This Voltairean Prince, who had held the Christian verities so cheap, was superstitious even to puerility.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron