Puerile is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUERILE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• juvenile; childish
• childishly silly and immature
• silly and childish
• Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.
• of or characteristic of a child
• displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

Words related to PUERILE

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Words that contain PUERILE

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How to use PUERILE in a sentence

• I distinguished the very words in the successive tones, which the school-boys and puerile imaginations at Chiswick used to combine with them.
• And Hardy, without any encouragement whatever, was interrupting with puerile anecdotes concerning the late lamented Joe Banks.
• Hence all prayer is needless he says, and the forms of external worship are superfluous and puerile.
• It was to some extent the expression of a general incredulity which astonished his friends, especially when contrasted with his tenderness for many puerile superstitions.
• I shall not be convinced that any discourse is puerile because it is pronounced such by the venerable Dr.
• Aware of the puerile vanity of the princely fugitive, the Duke stood bareheaded in his presence, and never presumed to seat himself until he had received an invitation to do so.
• For David had opposed it, offering a dozen trivial, almost puerile reasons.
• Apart from the contemplation of electrical effects, these amusements may appear somewhat puerile.
• But taken in themselves, all these old precautions were only puerile.
• Whether such a use of language is puerile or noble depends upon the genius of the writer or speaker, and the familiarity of the associations employed.
• Many, therefore, who share this sentiment will doubtless attribute my reticence to a puerile fear on my part to meet it.
• It seemed to him puerile, ridiculous, to think of refusing to continue with the work he had started.
• When the music of the dream had ceased and suddenly became ostentatiously puerile, the audience broke into a tumult of applause.
• Ferocity and violence seemed puerile and out of place when contrasted with that tranquil audacity.
• This system of combination, so puerile in its ingenuity, was fraught with the gravest consequences to the history of Egyptian religions.
• To scold at that nature is puerile, and implies an ignorance of the task which religion undertakes.
• A more robust view of morals teaches that it is puerile to ignore human passions and human physiology.
• They are more puerile now serious, than when in the long paroxysm of gay levity.
• Its dogma is absurd and puerile, its history a tissue of crimes and violence.
• Obviously an architect of distinction can reduce the difficulty of laying out a tennis-court to an elementary and puerile absurdity.
• There was no harm in the proceeding, but it would be undignified, puerile, and unusual, for so grave a functionary to take it, without a commensurate object.
• Puerile in a sense it had every right to be, for modern prose narration was then in its very infancy in this country.
• Inevitably these first efforts to understand were very puerile, very superficial.
• It is said that the puerile public was not greatly stirred.
• Many of their stories, taken from the sacred texts, are quite puerile and insipid.
• If they say it is resulting from legislation, I answer that their apprehensions are puerile.
• The charge was not only puerile but amusing, when one considers how Douglas himself was observing that particular Sabbath.

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