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Definition of the day : « puerile »

  • adj childish
Example sentences :
  • Their falsehoods were puerile, their affirmations ridiculous.
  • Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
  • He only issued from his torpor at night to fall into blind and puerile fits of anger.
  • Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
  • The ideal is as impracticable as it is puerile and retrograde.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) » by John Morley
  • We are too absorbed in the puerile interests and occupations of daily life.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Fountain » by Lilian Staveley
  • The officers took, as usual, a puerile revenge in the form of a burlesque.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
  • The words that passed between us were few and puerile in regard of the situation.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow-Line » by Joseph Conrad
  • And then, as to the man himself, how puerile it is to give him this importance!
  • Extract from : « Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General » by Charles Lever
  • How puerile has been the teaching that we can sin against the Eternal God.
  • Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
  • Yet in their religious acts they were often bigoted, intolerant and puerile.
  • Extract from : « The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 » by Various
  • What puerile trumpery is that refusal of a man to reveal his name!
  • Extract from : « Old Fogy » by James Huneker