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Definition

child-like — especially acting immaturely

The film is filled with clever puns and puerile pranks.

puerile = child-like — especially acting immaturely

Her campaign proved her to be puerile and feckless.
A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked—a tear of disappointment and impatience; ashamed of it, I wiped it away.
Bronte, Charlotte -- Jane Eyre
I acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 15th of October, and its account of your puerile antics in regards to Grace Marks.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

puerile = immature (child-like)

Yet at school he acted as though he were excited about the puerile lesson of the day.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

puerile = child-like

... 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...
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey

puerile = child-like

This puerile feature in a nature which was conspicuously manly had often given rise to comment and conjecture.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
puerile jokes
The words that passed between us were few and puerile in regard of the situation.
Conrad, Joseph -- The Shadow Line
This obligation cost her so much that she consulted her director, the Abbe Couturier, upon the subject of this honest but puerile civility.
de Balzac, Honore -- An Old Maid
Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- A Study In Scarlet
"No," said the old man, "and doubtless his adventure is of a nature in line with thy puerile and effeminate teachings."
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Outlaw of Torn
Professor Porter deigned to make no response to this puerile inquiry.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- Tarzan of the Apes
This attempt to divert the conversation was too puerile, and Mrs.
Forster, E. M. -- A Room With A View
puerile breathing
I must confess that this puerile explanation gave me great pleasure.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Gambler
That's so puerile I can't find words to-'
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
They were reckless, puerile, congenial, naive, presumptuous, deferential and rambunctious.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
He did not speak down to her or at her, nor content himself with puerile questions about her life or monologues of his own activities.
Toni Morrison -- Sula
This attempt to divert the conversation was too puerile, and Mrs. Honeychurch resented it.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View

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