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puerile
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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
  • 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)
  • It was puerile.†  (source)
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  • That's so puerile I can't find words to—' 'Forget it,' broke in Havilland.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The puerility of the attempt disarmed Lily's indignation: did it not prove how horribly the poor creature was frightened?†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Pray tell, why am I having supper with that grasping fool and his puerile wife?†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They were reckless, puerile, congenial, naive, presumptuous, deferential and rambunctious.†  (source)
  • Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius.†  (source)
  • 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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