Noun, : an inexcusable puerility. From Dictionary.com.
There's a difference between paradoxes and puerility. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Moore To Transition From Documentaries To Narrative Feature Films? | /Film] Reference
But the puerility of American consumer culture persists. From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin R. Barber: After Blacksburg] Reference
Is that puerility a precept for raising children or inspiring adults?. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Fein: Henry Kissinger: Moral Midget Destined for Obscurity] Reference
"Bluff, to be successful, must never be founded upon puerility or brag.". From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
He displays a vigorous naïve puerility that still gives his story an atoning charm. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
The puerility of this proceeding is so obvious that not a word need be said about it. From Wordnik.com. [Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong)] Reference
Many of his redeeming qualities are often regarded as evidences of puerility and barbarism. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Declamation, repetition, puerility, a lack of logic, and incoherence strike him at every turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Hence the seeming puerility of fiction when contrasted with these more wondrous phenomena of fact. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
As it stands, it is a weird offering providing equal parts of emotional power and technical puerility. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
A serious exploration of leprechauns could be a good fantasy novel, despite the puerility of the topic. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Fantastic Stuff, an essay by Richard K. Morgan - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games] Reference
One is, in fact, stunned to observe the sheer puerility of the discourse and the level of intransigence involved. From Wordnik.com. [Is this the way to claim that we belong to the Noons of the Future?] Reference
Nothing shows the puerility of the media than their awe of this unintelligent clown Obama's speechifying propensity. From Wordnik.com. [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference
But Maupassant never let himself be carried away by the tinsel of his prestige, nor the puerility of his enchantment. From Wordnik.com. [Une Vie] Reference
The pittites, affronted at the extreme puerility of some of the incidents, and the inanity of all the dialogue, hissed. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841] Reference
His point is that the puerility that is conditioned by the consumerist ethos today reinforces fundamentalist tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [Thank God For Blessing Us With A Fallible Bible] Reference
There is an unfounded prejudice against poetry in many men because of the fancied puerility of it and its silly sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The body becomes imbecile, the spirit supine and sentimental, the morals vitiated, and the mind sinks into complete puerility. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
And the mainstream media, taking a cue from the business model of Fox news, is also seemingly arrested by this kind of puerility. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Raimondo vs. Christopher Hitchens on al-Jazeera « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
Behind the outrage against Imus is a simple reality the corporations busy punishing him don't want to acknowledge: puerility pays. From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin R. Barber: After Blacksburg] Reference
Skip over the puerility of the first sentence, then consider the two institutions that conservatives, we are told, hold in contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
Walsingham was impatient, almost indignant at this puerility. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
They lavish their strength, their puerility, and their anger. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon the Little] Reference
We can infer this from the signs of puerility of certain legends. From Wordnik.com. [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference
Eternal puerility of penal repressions applied to things of the soul!. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03] Reference
It is hardly worth while, perhaps, making any reply to such puerility. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles] Reference
Only conservatives would be impressed by their vagueness, emptiness and puerility. From Wordnik.com. [MyDD] Reference
Unfortunately, the puerility of the thing is so gross as to defeat its own object. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
Maybe it's a sign of my own puerility, but the "callowness" Matos refers to humanized him on. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Is Right] Reference
Charles told Marlborough "he had not quitted for seven years," is of course a mere puerility. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
The habits and dress of the people have always been primitive, and their laws simple to puerility. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories] Reference
And we bolster up our satisfaction by pointing to some mistake of logic or some puerility of statement. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
They cannot stand to lose and when they do they act with insufferable puerility and try and change the rules. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
His ill-humour almost approached puerility; his laugh, the sound of his voice, his whole being seemed steeped in venom. From Wordnik.com. [Rudin] Reference
It was plain that the Judges were surprised by its puerility, and that it did not help the accused in the eyes of the public. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1] Reference
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