puerility

How To Use puerility In A Sentence

• Enough to say that the combination of puerility and nastiness makes your flesh creep. Times, Sunday Times
• If your homeland is to survive fair and honorable, it must advance, rapidly, out of the fetid ooze of tawdriness, puerility, and troglodytism that at least one of its more vociferous citizens inhabits and spews.
• It's a puerility pile-up, and unnecessary in a show whose running time could easily be trimmed. Times, Sunday Times
• The sheer puerility of the stuff is precisely a combination of banality with evil: a preference for dictatorship larded with obscenity and fatuity.
• This ‘tit-for-tat’ mentality that permeates the highest levels of the society not only exposes the puerility of our politicians, but it undermines the spirit of the Constitution.
• A sound argument rendered toothless by his puerility. Times, Sunday Times
• Their one-joke puerility certainly won't please the purists, but once again, it's a perfect antidote to the sombre skies.
• The postmodernism doesn't excuse all the puerility. Times, Sunday Times
• While tumidity desires to transcend the limits of the sublime, the defect which is termed puerility is the direct antithesis of elevation, for it is utterly low and mean and in real truth the most ignoble vice of style. Archive 2010-03-01
• Yes, there's a fair amount of behind-the-bike-shed puerility and flashes of gratuitously cruel humour. Times, Sunday Times