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puerile
/ˈpjʊɹɪl/
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What does puerile mean?
adjective
- Childish; trifling; silly.
- Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile.
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That hope justifies my cruel studies, which, though apparently so puerile, are in reality worthy of serious consideration.
We begin, from the hour in which our limbs are enabled to exert themselves freely, with a puerile love of sport.
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In the midst of all the puerile repressions and inhibitions that hedge them round, they continue to show a gipsy spirit.
To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician.
A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked—a tear of disappointment and impatience; ashamed of it, I wiped it away.