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UK
/pɹɪpjuːbˈɛsənt/
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ADJECTIVE
- (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth
How To Use prepubescent In A Sentence
- The audience learns to care about Kate from the first moment they see her, prepubescent and moony.
- I was a prepubescent, and probably one of those stupid kids who always seem to come from bad homes; the ones who think the teacher's going to hit them, and can't even spell their own names.
- She says that the media hubbub caused by our anti-prepubescent legislation opened the door to a handful of well-paying corporate gigs.
- These responses are based on a sentimental view of nature, permissible in prepubescent girls, perhaps, but disturbing in anyone old enough to know better.
- And I'm probably going to regret saying this, but she's actually looking pretty good despite that prepubescent body.
- At the end, a darker path and two hollow balls of boxwood: several episodes of prepubescent sexuality occurred here.
- Within this story, these two prepubescent boys are scared at first by the presence of a cat, though they don't know what it is.
- The change is a steady one, a smoothly continuous development to the final prepubescent physique, rather than any passage through a series of separate stages.
- It is tempting to attribute this attitude to the desire to please a father figure, since Cruise's dad quit the family home during his boy's prepubescent years.
- He loved to talk to her about pornographic acts: sex with prepubescent girls and animals; nightmarish sadism; masochism; gynecocracy; enema torture. Kiss the Girls