Adjective : a puerile piece of writing. From Dictionary.com.
Barth's offenses, just in case the students were thinking of buying it, is Giles Goat-Boy, which Gardner tells them is "arch, extravagantly self-indulgent, clumsily allegorical, pedantic, tiresomely and pretentiously advance-guard, and like much of our 'new fiction', puerilely obscene.". From Wordnik.com. [Monsters of Academia (Updated)] Reference
These things, described but puerilely, have the weight of an allegory. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference
It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. M.beuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius] Reference
Opening double quotation marks (signifying continued quotation) are missing from the paragraphs starting "These things, described but puerilely" and "The foundation is the body", and have not been added. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference
The poor agony bell, which exhausted itself in ringing over there so puerilely to call for useless prayers, stopped at last, and, under the closed sky, the respiration of the grand waters alone was heard in the distance, in the universal silence. From Wordnik.com. [Ramuntcho] Reference
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"platform" -- puerilely intimating that they were out lecturing when it happened. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science] Reference
(I'm puerilely fond of adding a little sound clip to start a show. From Wordnik.com. [Marry in Massachusetts] Reference
To supply this my deficiency, I henceforth never failed to offer up, each morning and evening, extemporary ones, and which, though puerilely adapted to little impressions or wants, yet flowed the more truly from the heart, and cherished an affectionate, and therefore, truly religious feeling, towards my Almighty Father. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
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