Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity.
Lacking in nutritive value.
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Examples for "juvenile"
Examples for "juvenile"
1A £1 million programme for juvenile offenders was provided in the Budget.
2Fine Gael has published a £90 million programme to cut juvenile crime.
3The move forms part of a new Government crackdown on juvenile offenders.
4The state also fired Bob Hayter, who was commissioner for juvenile justice.
5Of course, there's the possibility she may be sent to juvenile detention.
1Given the adolescent nature of my problem, he proved an excellent source.
2Background and aims: The increasing prevalence of adolescent obesity affects adult health.
3Importance: Early intervention for substance use is critical to improving adolescent outcomes.
4Depression in adolescent girls may result in negative consequences in young adulthood.
5John Green is young but his adolescent years are well behind him.
1A change too from the usual puerile point-scoring that passes for debate.
2In truth, there was something puerile in the eagerness which Philip manifested.
3But Moran is far more than a puerile obsession with large underwear.
4She is a curious mixture of earthy and innocent, puerile and pious.
5A very trifling question, it is true; puerile even, if you will.
Lacking interest or significance or impact.
1Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'Britain has had a bellyful of Davis's jejune blather.
2Howel had become jejune, and limited very much by his failing sight.
3The jejune stories told about them by Manetho seemed to confirm this idea.
4And at length I find myself compounding the following jejune lines:
5Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectation.
6Here the people are calm and phlegmatic; their speech is jejune, lacks color.
7Click here to listen Actually, she sounds simultaneously youthful and careworn, jejune and fatigued.
8Thus, instead of severe, he became rigid, and his plainness is not unfrequently jejune.
9The reality did not correspond; it transcended his imagination; it painfully demonstrated his jejune crudity.
10There was no need to spoil this moment with something as jejune as the truth.
11Hillary's post-debate spinners called his answer irresponsible and jejune.
12In fact, he was raising the League from a jejune experiment into a flourishing organization.
13So she tried to fill in his jejune outlines.
14Britain has had a bellyful of Davis's jejune blather.
15But compared to this mob, they were jejune provincials.
16Cicero alludes to his style as being jejune and puerile, Brut., c. 64, De Legg.