as in childishness
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Noun
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When the vehicle stopped to turn onto the main road, her mirth vanished.—
Nnedi Okorafor,
WIRED,
14 Jan. 2025 -
Aunt Harry dug her hard brown fingers into Mrs. Klein’s chubby pink wrists and shook her face with a strange mirth, as though the Holy Ghost had touched her.—
Henry Van Dyke,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2024
Noun
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The hilarity of answering Social Ds for Joe, and Tom, and Sally.—
Justin Curto,
Vulture,
10 Jan. 2025
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Only Murders In The Building just gave us one of its finest episodes to-date, with an almost perfect mix of hilarity, emotional payoff and murder mystery.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
23 Oct. 2024
Noun
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American scientists crowed with glee over evidence that America was as old as Europe.—
Caroline Winterer / Made by History,
TIME,
14 Jan. 2025
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Maria hides her pills from her household staff with the glee of a child stashing her Halloween candy.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Puerility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puerility. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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