puerile
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- adjective Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
- adjective Immature; childish. See Synonyms at young.
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- There was no harm in the proceeding, but it would be undignified, puerile, and unusual, for so grave a functionary to take it, without a commensurate object. — A Residence in France
- He can only regard it as a puerile thing, and an insinuation that he shall die. — Selected English Letters
- Here the fiction is puerile, and built on a system which is itself in danger of vanishing into air. — Lives of the English Poets
- a fit soil for the latter to work in, tools are employed by them which a generous mind would disdain to use; and which nothing but time, and their own puerile or wicked productions, can show the inefficacy and dangerous tendency of. — George Washington
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Maitland in his _Account of the Early Printed Books at Lambeth_, 1843, already takes occasion to animadvert on what he terms the puerile competition for rarities, which had then set in.
— The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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- Latin puerīlis, from puer, child, boy; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.
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/ (pyo͞oˈər-əl, pyo͝orˈəl, -īlˌ)/
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