sophomoric

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Sophomoric is often used as a pejorative term, but I myself remember laughing pretty hard as a sophomore.

From Time Magazine Archive

The caller had left the studies of the Sophomoric year,—or rather his Scott, Byron, Burns, and the popular novelists of the day,—for the recruiting service in his native county.

From Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac by Armstrong, William H.

I had my baptism of Sophomoric scorn and many a heated argument over my title to life, liberty and the pursuit of learning.

From Eben Holden, a tale of the north country by Bacheller, Irving

He found a man, I did not so easily recognize, that was Sophomoric at about the same period that he was and I experienced a bad quarter of an hour.

From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon

Now Daniel Webster passed safely through all the stages of the "Sophomoric" disease of the mind, as he passed safely through the measles, the chicken-pox, and other eruptive maladies incident to childhood and youth.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel