Examples of 'puerile' in a sentence

Meaning of "puerile"

Puerile (adjective): Immature or childish, especially in a way that is humorous or annoying. This term is typically used to describe behavior or actions that are silly or juvenile
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  • Childish; trifling; silly.
  • Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile.

How to use "puerile" in a sentence

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Puerile romp without a single redeeming feature.
After that its puerile and boring.
On a day like this it all seems so puerile.
The literal theory is puerile and untenable.
The computer games especially are downright puerile.
Fantastic bunch of puerile shit you have thrown up.
That may seem a little puerile.
He had formed a most puerile concept of the empire.
So morally rigid and so emotionally puerile.
This is no time for your puerile attempts at humor.
And whatever is predictable is also puerile.
Unless puerile is not good.
I know the decadence of their puerile teachings.
I was a puerile adolescent led by his hormones instead of his head.
We have had enough ofyour puerile influence.

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This is puerile action which will not defeat pollution.
There is nothing more than puerile male bonding.
To regard revolution as synonymous with nihilism or bolshevism is puerile.
But such hypotheses are puerile and account for nothing.
The expedient would have been puerile.
This is just puerile nationalism.
What occurs on stage is always puerile.
This is puerile and futile.
The rest of your response is puerile.
Puerile to the same degree.
To deny this is idle and puerile.
Puerile and third rate.
Much of the debate there was conducted at a puerile level.
Their puerile minds are once again distracted by that flickering box.
Someone with a puerile brain.
They create a puerile and unfocussed atmosphere and it hacks me right off.
We have to put an end to this absurd and puerile rumor.
It was puerile and gimmicky.
Faking a robbery would be puerile.
It was an act of puerile desperation.
The first is that it is puerile.
But now sounds of puerile laughter erupted all around them.
You are absolutely wasting my time with your puerile disengenuity.
Other precisely the same puerile jealousies which animate the men of.
Refusing to acknowledge this is puerile.
What was pride in the former becomes puerile vanity and paltry ostentation in the latter.
I find it pointless and puerile.
So the Judoon and his puerile possed have survived my trap.
It is arrogant and puerile.
Nothing could be more puerile than the precautions taken on this point by the English.
Theocracy diverts a great deal of effort to puerile or disastrous purposes.
All for some puerile quip about Indonesia being in Asia.
That was truly puerile.
Johnson also shares with Trump a puerile fascination with gigantic and illusory infrastructure projects.
Your euphemisms are so puerile.

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