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• a  of or characteristic of a child
  puerile breathing
• s  displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  puerile jokes

• The hilarious highs easily compensate for the puerile lows.
• There was a lot of puerile drivel, too (you know who you are!), of course, but on the whole it was illuminating to get such instant reaction to our posts.
• Publishers Weekly sniffed at their efforts, calling the book "puerile.

• adolescent
• jejune
• juvenile

News & Articles

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• ‘Banana Monologues’ is short on appeal
  No, “The Banana Monologues” isn’t a male rejoinder to Eve Ensler’s feminist classic. Rather, in this solo turn, John R. Brennan tells the story of an ill-fated relationship starring an organ named, in keeping with the piece’s puerile humor, “Sergeant Johnson.” Said Johnson, a horny military type...
  June 27, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Stephen Bayley in guardian.co.uk
  Stephen Bayley, founder of the Design Museum, described it as feeble, a "puerile mess, an artistic flop and a commercial scandal", while message boards condemned it as a "broken swastika".
• Coen brothers in FOXNews
  Clooney, whom Joel Coen says shares their "puerile sense of humor," is set to work at a secret project in the basement: Building an intricate sex apparatus as a gift for his character's wife.
• Robert Mugabe in Melbourne Herald Sun
  We have observed how of late this conspiracy has attempted to transform into a militant, criminal strain, characterised by the puerile attempts of misguided opposition elements to create a state of anarchy,Mr Mugabe said.