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

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

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

As a member of the British Parliament his speeches were of a thoroughly commonplace kind, usually marked by some attempted smartness that but showed the puerility and poverty of his brain.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne