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What does puerile mean?

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Adjective
  1. Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer: puellile.
  2. Childish; trifling; silly.
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No puerile, childish criticisms will diminish their importance, nor minimise their influence on our national psyche.
Because the reasoning would be too puerile and the attempted association too reminiscent of the methods of Stalinism.
Two best man speeches at the reception as well, that's twice the opportunity for inane and puerile humour.
Essentially, this takes the form of an oppositional dualism that frequently manifests itself in demonstrably puerile ways.
Opposition may sometimes seem like a game, and there is nothing more puerile than politicians yah-booing each other purely for the sake of it.
If you could forgive the ends, the means was actually a neat project in puerile ballistics.

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