puerile
adjective
of or relating to a child or to childhood.
puerilely
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a word derived from
puerile.
Example Sentences
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And Sirjana correctly spelled puerilely — childish — and radiolarian — a single-celled marine animal having a spherical body with threadlike projections.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022
These things, described but puerilely, have the weight of an allegory.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson
It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
