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
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
Ridicule, mocking, insults that aren’t profane, and simple puerility aren’t going anywhere.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2015
The technology surrounding them has advanced since “The Lawnmower Man,” but the pungent bouquet of puerility and superstition remains.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014
Its very puerility added to her sense of degradation.
From A Romance of Wastdale by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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
Reid's work, he concedes, has "puerilities and longueurs."
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
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
The ingenuous charm, again, which painters threw over the puerilities of the monastic fancy, is absent from these plays.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
