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Meanings of jejune in English

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity.

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Lacking in nutritive value.

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Examples for "juvenile"
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A £1 million programme for juvenile offenders was provided in the Budget.
The Irish Times
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Fine Gael has published a £90 million programme to cut juvenile crime.
The Irish Times
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The move forms part of a new Government crackdown on juvenile offenders.
The Irish Times
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The state also fired Bob Hayter, who was commissioner for juvenile justice.
Reuters
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Of course, there's the possibility she may be sent to juvenile detention.
Biggie and the devil diet
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Given the adolescent nature of my problem, he proved an excellent source.
The Guardian
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Background and aims: The increasing prevalence of adolescent obesity affects adult health.
Pubmed
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Importance: Early intervention for substance use is critical to improving adolescent outcomes.
Pubmed
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Depression in adolescent girls may result in negative consequences in young adulthood.
Pubmed
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John Green is young but his adolescent years are well behind him.
The Guardian
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A change too from the usual puerile point-scoring that passes for debate.
The Irish Times
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In truth, there was something puerile in the eagerness which Philip manifested.
History of the United Netherlands, 1587d
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But Moran is far more than a puerile obsession with large underwear.
The Guardian
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She is a curious mixture of earthy and innocent, puerile and pious.
The Irish Times
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A very trifling question, it is true; puerile even, if you will.
Social Life in the Insect World

Lacking interest or significance or impact.

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Usage of jejune in English
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'Britain has had a bellyful of Davis's jejune blather.
The Guardian
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Howel had become jejune, and limited very much by his failing sight.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement
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The jejune stories told about them by Manetho seemed to confirm this idea.
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the ...
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And at length I find myself compounding the following jejune lines:
Through Russia
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Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectation.
The Irish Times
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Here the people are calm and phlegmatic; their speech is jejune, lacks color.
The Simple Life
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Click here to listen Actually, she sounds simultaneously youthful and careworn, jejune and fatigued.
The Guardian
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Thus, instead of severe, he became rigid, and his plainness is not unfrequently jejune.
Milton
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The reality did not correspond; it transcended his imagination; it painfully demonstrated his jejune crudity.
The Roll-Call
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There was no need to spoil this moment with something as jejune as the truth.
While galileo preys
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Hillary's post-debate spinners called his answer irresponsible and jejune.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
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In fact, he was raising the League from a jejune experiment into a flourishing organization.
The Fortunate Youth
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So she tried to fill in his jejune outlines.
The Research Magnificent
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Britain has had a bellyful of Davis's jejune blather.
The Guardian
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But compared to this mob, they were jejune provincials.
The Naked God
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Cicero alludes to his style as being jejune and puerile, Brut., c. 64, De Legg.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
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