NOUN
- the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
- a property characteristic of a child
How To Use puerility In A Sentence
- Puerility Emma expected marriage and her mate too much. However, she never thought about what her husband needed. She commit all kinds of outrages and never considered her husband and family.
- Yet most are uniform not only in their puerility of perspective but in their stale language and ideas (not to mention the distance they keep from any hint of meter or rhyme).
- The puerility and sloth of the students, the pure nothingness of the curriculum: it's all sham and mummery, gutless as a haiku poem.
- Maybe it's a sign of my own puerility, but the "callowness" Matos refers to humanized him on Anthony Is Right
- I live and breathe puerility. Times, Sunday Times
- But they're back to their boisterous best this year with a propulsive mix of puerility and sophistication. Times, Sunday Times
- Rolling my eyes at their puerility, I poked carefully at my meal and observed the fellow passengers in our immediate vicinity.
- The work combines a fourth-form puerility with a satirical current, one that leaves the viewer slightly queasy.
- Facing the national flag, the students in uniform T shirts carrying the words of" Non- remunerated Blood Donation Volunteers" sworn in unison to bid farewell to their puerility and usher in maturity .
- Enough to say that the combination of puerility and nastiness makes your flesh creep. Times, Sunday Times
