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UK
/pjˈuːɹaɪl/
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[ US /pjuˈɹiɫ/ ]
[ US /pjuˈɹiɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or characteristic of a child
puerile breathing -
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
jejune responses to our problems
puerile jokes
adolescent insecurity
their behavior was juvenile
How To Use puerile In A Sentence
- And the motive on the part of the slave-owners was the love of gold; or, to speak more truly, of vulgar and puerile ostentation.
- Maybe you think I have a puerile sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
- As the rest of the world marched towards scientific orientation and professionalism, India wallowed in a whirlpool of politics, polemics and puerile prejudices.
- Holytaco is 4chan Lite (also known as a fount of puerile, sexist low-brow humor), but this is one of the few gems I've ever seen come out of it. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- Cardinal Cole published a list of fifty-four Articles, containing instructions to the clergy of his diocess of Canterbury, some of which are too ludicrous and puerile to excite any other sentiment than laughter in these days. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
- For some the right to a fair trial is trumped by rubber-necking, political opportunism and puerile attention seeking.
- The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
- When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism?
- He dismissed Stephenson as a self-serving mythmaker: a puerile grandee, whose assertions were little more than the “dangerous hallucinations” of an isolated old man heading toward second childhood.97 This judgment was perhaps too harsh. Storyteller
- It is a puerile illusion, hardly worthy of a fourteen-year-old mind, yet it persists among grown men even as they meet women more avidly copulative than they. 'Homer & Langley'
