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- told the teenagers that such puerile behavior would not be tolerated during the ceremony
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- allowed the company to be taken over by a bunch of puerile whippersnappers fresh out of business school
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- the kind of puerile jokes that teenage moviegoers apparently love
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- birdbrained,
- ditzy
- (or ditsy),
- dizzy,
- featherbrained,
- flighty,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- giddy,
- goofy,
- harebrained,
- light-headed,
- light-minded,
- scatterbrained,
- silly,
- yeasty
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- grave,
- melancholy,
- somber
- (or sombre),
- thoughtful
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“Puerile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puerile. Accessed 16 May. 2022.
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The first known use of puerile was in 1527
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