puerile

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A better title might not include puerile memes like "Protip".

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Quick take

of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing"

adjective

displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for puerile.

adjective

of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing"

adjective

displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"

Example sentences

A better title might not include puerile memes like "Protip".

Great on the company's part not to tolerate this puerile shit from an employee.

Although I probably wouldn't have reported it, I still find it more offensive than puerile dick jokes.

A joke using a puerile nickname for a penis does not find humor in the degradation of women.

I will grant you "masculine," "macho," or even "puerile," but "phallic" is simply offensive.

But why the puerile jab at the officer's "educational attainment"?

I went through my collection of Cards Against Humanity and removed all the "not subtle" cards that are basically trying to be puerile.

I found the apps to be puerile, offensive, and inappropriate.\nThat said neither was sexist or misogynistic.

Actually, that portion seemed pretty puerile and unimaginative to me.

It's usually possible to simply down vote puerile comments into oblivion, but one intelligent troll can waste considerable bandwidth.

The puerile discussion going on on Hacker News about the iPhone 4S seems to indicate that if you like iPhones, you're a blind idiot sheep and if you like Anddroid phones, you're a super cool elite master of technology.

Looks like another episode of the aggressive police state flaring up and hurting a citizen with their transcendentally puerile inferiority-complex driven thuggery.

Quote from original article"We women found ourselves nearly alone, outsiders in a culture that was sometimes boyishly puerile, sometimes rigorously hierarchical, occasionally friendly and welcoming.

I was, instead, offering the very real possibility that one could overhear a comment between two guys and that it could have a completely different meaning and intention than that which Adria automatically ascribed to the situation, as puerile as the dongle comment was.

I'm not saying everybody who likes Adam Sandler is a bad person, but I do feel that Sandler movies are kind of puerile and limited in a way that appeals to a particular type of person, and that, to the extent that they influence other creators, they do some damage to our culture.