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The film is filled with clever puns and puerile pranks.puerile = child-like
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Yet at school he acted as though he were excited about the puerile lesson of the day. (source)
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I acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 15th of October, and its account of your puerile antics in regards to Grace Marks. (source)puerile = immature (child-like)
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... from the grandeeship [he received] a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue... (source)puerile = child-like
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IT IS PUERILE FOR YOUNG MEN TO DISCUSS WHAT DEGREE OF ADVANTAGE THEY TOOK OF THEIR DATES; IT IS DISRESPECTFUL OF WOMEN—ALL THIS CHEAP BRAGGING—AND IT GIVES MEN A BAD REPUTATION.† (source)
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It was puerile.† (source)
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That's so puerile I can't find words to—' 'Forget it,' broke in Havilland.† (source)
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She felt that in the turbulence of the drama she was discovering a history more important than the commonplace chronicles which dealt with senators and their pompous puerilities.† (source)
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The puerility of the attempt disarmed Lily's indignation: did it not prove how horribly the poor creature was frightened?† (source)
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It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene.† (source)
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Pray tell, why am I having supper with that grasping fool and his puerile wife?† (source)
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If an oppressive law were passed, the liberties of the people would still be protected by the means by which that law would be put in execution: the majority cannot descend to the details and (as I will venture to style them) the puerilities of administrative tyranny.† (source)
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But I have rested too long on a doctrine which can be of no use to a Christian writer; for as he cannot introduce into his works any of that heavenly host which make a part of his creed, so it is horrid puerility to search the heathen theology for any of those deities who have been long since dethroned from their immortality.† (source)
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They were reckless, puerile, congenial, naive, presumptuous, deferential and rambunctious.† (source)
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Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius.† (source)
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And even those who fought in our courts and legislature over questions of liberty, in truth meant things that are minor at best and puerile at worst.† (source)
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