How To Use Puerile In A Sentence
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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.
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Maybe you think I have a puerile sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the rest of the world marched towards scientific orientation and professionalism, India wallowed in a whirlpool of politics, polemics and puerile prejudices.
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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
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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
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For some the right to a fair trial is trumped by rubber-necking, political opportunism and puerile attention seeking.
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The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
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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?
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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
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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'
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Of course, in practice, I think that the majority of weblogs I come across are awful - derivative, puerile, self-important, blockheaded, dull.
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Too violent for kiddies, too unhip for teens and too puerile for everyone else, it flirts with every demographic and commits to none.
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It is true that one can scan a whole evening's programmes and find only puerile junk on every channel.
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You'd never guess such a thing from this 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless, witless, and devoid of anything resembling humor.
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It's a puerile ideal - in real life we're all far too independent and self-centered to want to dissolve ourselves in another person.
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I always thought my stuff and most of my comments here were far too puerile for a serious snaily chap like yourself to read.
Multifarious gallimaufry of odds and ends
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This version is puerile, including jokes that could hardly have raised a snigger when first heard and turns of speech abandoned for over a generation.
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At times the humour is too puerile.
The Sun
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There was a time when I was deeply enamored of Bateson's approach, but I have come to view it as somewhat puerile (but maybe that's just the onrush of mortality, or early Alzheimer's, or both).
Against Darwinism
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Then presently we were in the famous Court of the Lions, where a group of those beasts, at once archaic and puerile in conception, sustained the basin of a fountain in the midst of a graveled court arabesqued and honeycombed round with the wonted ornamentation of the Moors.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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His few political interventions are puerile and his forays abroad - to Australia, Orkney, Israel - are, well, asinine.
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No puerile, childish criticisms will diminish their importance, nor minimise their influence on our national psyche.
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Seriously, my friends, this a deep and meaningful lesson, not just a puerile, unfunny swipe at poor people.
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Your example of email being maligned as puerile is just a case in point.
Re: e(-)mail « Motivated Grammar
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I have yet to meet a single one who isn't sickened to his stomach by the excrescence of his pardons, and by the puerile vandalism of the White House in the last hours of the old regime.
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The caged Gramsci wannabe leader-banana, biting before he putrefies, reveals delusion, derangement and dangerous incoherence; a pubescent Miliband mashing and spewing puerile "progressive" views of Britain circa 2020, which by sheer velocity of delivery, leave even cheerleader Naughtie out of breath and voice.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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It has just the right tone to reach them - puerile but non-threatening, lowbrow but chaste.
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I'm grateful I made the change in 2008 – my only regret after listening to the constant puerile and irresponsible rhetoric emanating from the right, is that I didn't leave sooner!
Gingrich says Palin 'tremendously important'
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This is not the first time that the last few rats on a very sinky ship have resorted to puerile pranks.
Lady T's Mark Twain Moment
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I find their puerile, psychologically regressive child's play boring and self-absorbed, but maybe I just don't understand them.
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And yet the arguments he adduces are gimmicky and puerile and laced with minor dishonesties all the way through.
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And yet, from the blindness or inconsiderate examination of his critics, this latent wisdom -- this cryptical science of poetic effects -- in the mighty poet, has been misinterpreted, and set down to the account of defective skill, or even of puerile ostentation.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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Yes, every watt you soak up in your puerile demonstrations of "nonconformity" does so much to advance America's greatness.
Drudge Retort
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These type of programmes are cheap (from a production standpoint) puerile, prurient and sadly popular.
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puerile breathing
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Your argument to justify your opposition to the peace talks is puerile.
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Peter Cook was invited to guest on the programme on the strength of the notorious Derek and Clive recordings, which shared with punk a kind of adolescent, deliberately puerile nihilism.
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He is therefore far more interesting for what he represents than for his sporting profile or for the reputation he has gained for tedious, puerile antics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its puerile response to grave matters would seem obnoxious if it did not yield such irresistible jokes.
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Essentially, this takes the form of an oppositional dualism that frequently manifests itself in demonstrably puerile ways.
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I suspect that much of their puerile resentment stems from their inability to comprehend, let alone match, the erudition, wit, and urbanity of the Professor.
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Nobody with a modicum of intelligence is going to swallow the daily diet of puerile propaganda put out by the ruling party.
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Apologies to all those who expect something less puerile from Vicious Imagery, I'm in a scampish mood today...
Innuendo [and out the other]
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Such childish antics and puerile reasoning are endangering sponsorship at the very moment when the arts most need it.
Times, Sunday Times
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A wooden target with one or two darts sticking in it hung on the end wall and invited the Robin Hoods of the village to try their skill; a system of incised marks on the oaken table made sinister suggestions of shove-halfpenny; and a large open box filled with white wigs, gaudily colored robes and wooden spears, swords and regalia, crudely coated with gilded paper, obviously appertained to the puerile ceremonials of the Order of Druids.
The Eye of Osiris
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His storytelling comedy is sometimes puerile, sometimes profound, always warm.
Times, Sunday Times
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But running to the mods and tattletaling on them is just puerile.
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It is a well-attested fact, especially since the sacred precincts of established truth have been raided by every puerile pedant and sciolist who can handle a pen, that any absurdity whatever, so long as it is clad "in the lion's skin" and no matter how loudly it brays, has some fatal claim upon the rambling credulity of the multitude.
The Doctor's Daughter
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In fact give it one for humour, another for puerile jokes and a third for gore.
The Sun
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A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked a tear of disappointment and impatience.
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I view Goodling's use of the word as an attempt to deny responsibility for her actions by seeing herself in puerile terms.
Balkinization
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If we go on reading about the puerile wife-swapping, the pubescent sex games, the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four superheroes, and the gratuitous martyrdom, we will gradually come to see our own suburbia as a desert vastation and our own children as Bedouins subsisting on the shifting sand, as refugees from civil war and famine.
In the Desert, Prime Time
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The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
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The sororal comments are described as ‘filthy, puerile, and inane.’
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Maitland in his _Account of the Early Printed Books at Lambeth_, 1843, already takes occasion to animadvert on what he terms the puerile competition for rarities, which had then set in.
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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To be brutally honest, I often find his sense of humour tedious and puerile.
Times, Sunday Times
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They alternate puerile lyrics and gnarly riffs with solemn songs about loss and longing.
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And rather than enjoying my puerile comments, Scarlett was stung.
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Still think its hilarious though, but I'm a generally juvenile (and puerile!) person.
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Concert organisers branded the group's actions as puerile.
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They must have thought I was crass, puerile and selfish.
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puerile jokes
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Because the reasoning would be too puerile and the attempted association too reminiscent of the methods of Stalinism.
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Rather than present a biting satirical assailment on religion, I shall present a puerile, lowbrow rant on religion's younger brother, cult worship.
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I am almost grateful (though I’m not sure Publius is) to Whelan for his puerile display of pique, since it at least has brought this conversation to the fore, and has highlighted why pseudonymity is an integral part of Internet media.
Pseudonymity and Accountability
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How puerile, how unjust, how derivative, how bloody unhistorical can you get?
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It showed a puerile and imbecilic side of the internet that I've never encountered before - and hope never to again.
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Such a success story, so unapologetically, cheerfully puerile.
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So once again they manage to juxtapose the puissant music with the borderline puerile ideas, ensorcelling you before dropping you with an abrupt thud.
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The only surprise in all the puerile humour is just how sour the film's view of marriage is.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence they use each other by turns, a “puerile practice” known as Alish – Takish, the Lat. facere vicibus or mutuum facere.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Marino abounds in puerile conceits; but they are not far-fetched, like those of Donne and Cowley; they generally lie on the surface, and often consist of nothing more than a mere play upon words; so that, if to be a punster is to be a metaphysician, Marino is a poetical Heraclitus.
Lives of the English Poets
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This version is puerile, including jokes that could hardly have raised a snigger when first heard and turns of speech abandoned for over a generation.
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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?
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To-day I can laugh when I recall the childishness of my actions, the outcome of the unreasoned promptings of my puerile jealousy.
The Motor Pirate
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He's been up all night cavorting with models (or so my puerile mind imagines) and now he's watching telly while I'm working.
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Few sportsmen have ever been so consumed by preoccupations with image, publicity and puerile self-justification.
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THIS is a sad day for people like me who have a puerile sense of humour.
The Sun
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This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years.
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Two best man speeches at the reception as well, that's twice the opportunity for inane and puerile humour.
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If you could forgive the ends, the means was actually a neat project in puerile ballistics.
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There was a certain puerile joy in her, a childish excitement shone in her eyes.
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Men is unlike anything else on TNT, and needed a more powerful lead-in than the puerile Franklin & Bash to sell it to a mainstream audience.
Ask Matt: Midseason TV, Emmys, The Good Wife, Glee, Jesse Stone and More!
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He animadverted strongly upon the puerile nature of the defence, and in answer to a remark by Essex, that if he had wished to stir up a rebellion he would have had a larger company with him, pointed out that his dependence was upon the people of London, and compared his attempt to that of the duke of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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(the monk of melodrama always has a bass voice), while excessive or precocious sexual indulgence tends to be associated with the same kind of puerile voice as is found in those persons in whom pubertal development has not been carried very far, or who are of what Griffiths terms eunuchoid type.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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In Mitchell's crafty hands, the bawdy drawings become kaleidoscopic fun-fur mosaics: deliciously touchy-feely, rather than puerile or self-consciously lewd.
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This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years.
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Opposition may sometimes seem like a game, and there is nothing more puerile than politicians yah-booing each other purely for the sake of it.
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The wrong creative direction will leave you looking infantile, puerile or perverse.
Times, Sunday Times
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In their place stand loudly tuneful three-minute songs with entertainingly puerile lyrics that get shouted at the stage by the audience.
Times, Sunday Times
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So once again they manage to juxtapose the puissant music with the borderline puerile ideas, ensorcelling you before dropping you with an abrupt thud.
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It all seems so puerile and, dare I say it, insensitive.
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There was a certain puerile joy in her, a childish excitement shone in her eyes.