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puerility

[pyoo-uh-ril-i-tee, pyoo-ril-] / ˌpju əˈrɪl ɪ ti, pjʊˈrɪl- /






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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

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

He smiles softly at this tender-hearted puerility of hers.

From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

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

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

Games for grown-up children, the puerilities of country-house parties, what are they?

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins




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