I agree with you, they are very puerile-theyare even very vulgar.

Inevitably these first efforts to understand were very puerile, very superficial.

Judged from this point of view, Japanese and Chinese paintings look very puerile, hardly deserving the name of art.

Somebody wrote a vile review of them once, and gave the idea of a very puerile, ridiculous, apron-stringy attempt at poetry.

The love of power is very puerile; and this man is devoured by it, without having force enough to seize it wholly.

It did seem very puerile to me, save as it might possibly account in some remote way for Mrs. Packard's peculiar mental condition.

Truly all of this is very puerile and childish, and I am ashamed of it;-andyet I am almost weeping as I write it.

[Footnote 11: These several traditions, all of a very puerile character, are to be found in Ondegardo, Relacion Segunda, Ms., - Sarmiento, Relacion, Ms., cap.