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juvenility

[joo-vuh-nil-i-tee] / ˌdʒu vəˈnɪl ɪ ti /


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And when the theatrical comedy is in jeopardy, revitalizing this type of juvenility for low-brow laughs, now tempered even further to be digested between phone scrolls, feels like a golf ball to the forehead.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2025

Surprisingly, the mistake in his birth date and the claim of juvenility was not raised by the courts, prosecutors and defence lawyers until very late in the case - 2018.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2023

But forgive me if, as a guy, I take particular offense at his attempt to conscript me and mine as conspirators in his loathsomeness, to make us guys human shields for his repugnant juvenility.

From Seattle Times Oct. 12, 2016

In a similar way, the more juvenile jokes squeak by, sometimes, by dint of their flaunted juvenility.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 3, 2015

To Frank and Jean the world seemed a very gray place at present; and even the daily increasing juvenility of their parent failed to enliven them.

From The Prodigal Father by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

He is still preserved from active mischief by his astonishing self-consciousness and lack of humour; when he has outgrown these juvenilities, he will be really formidable.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna

I heartily wish I had any verses which with a clear mind I could send you in lieu of these juvenilities.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

One is often surprised at the juvenilities which grown people indulge in at sea, and the interest they take in them, and the consuming enjoyment they get out of them.

From Following the Equator — Part 1 by Mark Twain

Admiration of his fantastic heroes and their grotesque "chivalry" doings and romantic juvenilities still survives here, in an atmosphere in which is already perceptible the wholesome and practical nineteenth century smell of cotton-factories and locomotives.'

From Sir Walter Scott A Lecture at the Sorbonne by William Paton Ker

In fact, Diane enjoyed these delightful juvenilities all the more keenly because she knew that she could put an end to them at any moment.

From Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac




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