Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
Immature; childish.
youthful; juvenile silly
I thing you mean "telegraphic" sentences.... that's what children use in the acquisition of first language. Direct-talk is another related term.
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immature
youthful; juvenile silly
You need to stop acting in such a puerile manner and act your age.
You need to stop acting in such a puerile manner and act your age.
She was making puerile excuses about not wanting to get up for school this morning. That sentence works because it means to be trivial or childish about something.
premature and puerile, petty
preposterous (:
I think you mean puerile. It means immature or childish.
Adolescent, childlike, childish, inexperienced, puerile, tender...
To answer the question: "What sentence could you use for sneer?" One could answer: "I sneer at your puerile attempt at a question." (Seriously, puerile and sneering do go rather well together ... sneering is that ugly facial thing that people do when they can't help their face but show how below themselves they believe you to be ... puerile is the usual [internal] insult that goes with the sneer face ... sneering is all about contempt ;))
Cyril. Although there's the alternate 'ile' ending-- puerile, sterile, etc.
Obviously there are a few puerile misogynists out there who find this sort of thing amusing.