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puerile



the economic transactions presented as the machinations rapacious traders are not merely puerile [...] they are also unintelligible by the criteria of even the most primitive economic logic

—p.184 Commitment (177) by Theodor W. Adorno
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charged with American puerility

—p.37 The Bellarosa Connection (35) by Saul Bellow
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The whole notion of coolness was puerile.

—p.117 by Jonathan Franzen
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not exaggerated or solipsistic or puerile or sentimental or solecistic

—p.103 Beyond a Boundary: Netherland as Post-Colonial Novel (100) by James Wood
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But he’s never amounted to much, he remains puerile and full of complaints, in spite of his middle-aged man’s body.

—p.22 by Jhumpa Lahiri
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