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UK
/dʒˈuːvənˌaɪl/
]
[ US /ˈdʒuvəˌnaɪɫ, ˈdʒuvənəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒuvəˌnaɪɫ, ˈdʒuvənəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a young person, not fully developed
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people
juvenile fashions
juvenile diabetes -
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
jejune responses to our problems
puerile jokes
adolescent insecurity
their behavior was juvenile
How To Use juvenile In A Sentence
- The pod of whales included several juveniles, five infants and two male adults trying to protect them.
- He also worked as a counselor at a juvenile correctional detention centre.
- When you come to the world of weblogs for the first time you will probably find to your horror that they are written by foul-mouthed illiterates, self-obsessed juveniles (of all ages), assorted bigots and swivel-eyed fruitcakes.
- Patterns of adult body size are likely the evolutionary consequence of variation in juvenile survivorship among populations.
- In 1998 and 1999, a 17-year-old male held at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Powhatan County was investigated by state police for sex offenses with female staff there. Female Prison Staff Offenders in Two-thirds of Sexual Assaults | Impact Lab
- In Nephila, increased male mortality during the adult search phase is almost exactly counteracted by reduction in juvenile male growth stages.
- As a result, the juvenile justice system has emphasized rehabilitation, not retribution, requital, or punishment.
- And then the next morning, they fingerprinted me and took me to juvenile hall.
- We got a juvenile offender, family of devout Jehovah's Witnesses. We gotta be real careful here.
- Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, seven states have executed a combined twenty-two juvenile offenders nationwide.
