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Meanings of almost puerile in English

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Usage of almost puerile in English
1
To rebel against fate-totry to escape the inevitable issue-isalmost puerile.
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
2
For David had opposed it, offering a dozen trivial, almost puerile reasons.
The Breaking Point
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There is no secret about the almost puerile ingenuousness of Von Osten's methods and Krall's.
The Unknown Guest
4
But it is almost puerile to speak of the matter in the terms usually applicable to state trials.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 14: 1568, part I
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There was something almost puerile in the whims rather than schemes of Philip for carrying out his purpose.
History of the United Netherlands, 1588c
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The style of the banquets given on grand occasions was regulated on a scale of almost puerile splendor.
Holland: The History of the Netherlands
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It was therefore useless, almost puerile, to deny facts which were quite as much within the knowledge of the Netherlanders as of himself.
History of the United Netherlands, 1587d
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It is almost puerile to look further or deeper, when such a source of convulsion lies at the very outset of any investigation.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 07: 1561-62
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