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
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
But again, let us not forget that those days were more deeply stained than ours with puerility and cruelty and spite.
From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Furneaux Jordan
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
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
"One Lord, one faith, one baptism" they hold with us, and it is of great interest to recognise this fact in the midst of many superstitions and even puerilities.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
