Meanings of as puerile in English

His virility could have triumphed over a name twice as puerile.

The daydreaming is rebelled against as foolish, as puerile, as futile.

They look upon it as puerile and contemptible.

Nonetheless, his defenders dismiss his critics on the left as puerile and pedantic for rehashing this history.

Womanly virtues were regarded as puerile and contemptible, and woman herself was little better than a slave.

Of course, his plan was looked upon as puerile, if not mischievous, and failed to attract much attention.

It was another example of the irreverent showmanship which his fans find bracing and his foes see as puerile.

When the rest of us tried provocation, it was dismissed as puerile cynicism-somethingelse we would grow out of.

These principles are of so simple a character that the discussion of them is apt to be regarded as puerile.

For so absurd a performance must excite laughter rather than compassion; and indeed the composition is as puerile as the subject.

He regarded the dogmas of that Church as puerile errors, and yet he persisted in teaching them as if they were eternal truths.

We've invited some of the more popular members of Roman society, including Julia's favorite poet, Ovid -whosestyle Crinagoras dismisses as puerile and salacious.

"Brontë specialists" are agreed in dismissing the Chronicles as puerile.