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Meanings of puerile in English
Synonyms
Examples for "juvenile"
Examples for "juvenile"
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A £1 million programme for juvenile offenders was provided in the Budget.
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Fine Gael has published a £90 million programme to cut juvenile crime.
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The move forms part of a new Government crackdown on juvenile offenders.
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The state also fired Bob Hayter, who was commissioner for juvenile justice.
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Of course, there's the possibility she may be sent to juvenile detention.
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Given the adolescent nature of my problem, he proved an excellent source.
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Background and aims: The increasing prevalence of adolescent obesity affects adult health.
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Importance: Early intervention for substance use is critical to improving adolescent outcomes.
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Depression in adolescent girls may result in negative consequences in young adulthood.
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John Green is young but his adolescent years are well behind him.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'Britain has had a bellyful of Davis's jejune blather.
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Howel had become jejune, and limited very much by his failing sight.
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The jejune stories told about them by Manetho seemed to confirm this idea.
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And at length I find myself compounding the following jejune lines:
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Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectation.
Usage of puerile in English
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A change too from the usual puerile point-scoring that passes for debate.
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In truth, there was something puerile in the eagerness which Philip manifested.
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But Moran is far more than a puerile obsession with large underwear.
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She is a curious mixture of earthy and innocent, puerile and pious.
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A very trifling question, it is true; puerile even, if you will.
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And you are not the woman to be satisfied with anything puerile.
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To rebel against fate-totry to escape the inevitable issue-isalmost puerile.
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They have been faithful only to their own puerile and extravagant doctrines.
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Hitherto all attempts at space travelling have been too timid or puerile.
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I agree with you, they are very puerile-theyare even very vulgar.
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Most of his puerile productions were, by his maturer judgment, afterwards destroyed.
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For David had opposed it, offering a dozen trivial, almost puerile reasons.
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Bad enough to rob a man, without insulting him with puerile regrets.
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I stood on the balcony, staring at the smoke with puerile intrigue.
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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes.
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Perhaps the reader may smile in disdain at the puerile circumstance we mention.
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United Kingdom
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