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adolescent

An adolescent is a person or animal that is older than a child but younger than an adult. The teacher worked mostly with adolescents. An adolescent is a person going through sexual maturation.

adolescent

If something is adolescent it is typical of adolescents. The woman still had an adolescent appearance.

adolescent

relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent adolescent problems a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity (= teen, teenage) being of the age 13 through 19 teenage mothers the teen years in the state of development between puberty and maturity adolescent boys and girls (= jejune, juvenile, puerile) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity adolescent insecurity jejune responses to our problems their behavior was juvenile puerile jokes

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Simple sentences

It is said that adolescent friendships do not often last.

Movie subtitles

The only issue is guardianship. Are these two people morally fit to bring up an adolescent to proper manhood?
Adolescent nonsense!
I was caught in an unexpected intrigue. but my adolescent pride would not let me turn back.
Sending a rose to the table, that's really adolescent, isn't it?
Strange, I'd always taken Your Highness, for a perennial adolescent who cared only for his pleasures.
David, whenever a single ruffle comes into this adolescent fantasy world you guys have built around yourself, you start screaming like a bunch of poncey hairdressers!
Pre-adolescent frustration complex.
Besides, she's an adolescent.
Considering the effect a normal adolescent has on a home, Charlie, with the power he has.
He's a boy in a man's body, trying to be an adult, with the adolescent in him getting in the way.
We're in the hands of an adolescent.
Anyway, this homosexual flirtatiousness is so adolescent.
After the two pig thefts, your son Julian shut himself off in a long, adolescent hermetic state.
I'll call it adolescent hysteria.
Are these two people morally fit to bring up an adolescent to proper manhood?
You're still an adolescent.
He thinks I'm adolescent.
Give up this ridiculous adolescent idea.
He's just a delayed adolescent, that's all.
It's probably just another one of those adolescent cycles.
Adolescent swine.
Look I. '.some adolescent, stupid moron.
Those adolescent martyrs typical of Antonello.
Mary, you wouldn't think my idea was bad. if you read my copy of Post-Adolescent Social Trauma. Well, fine, I will. Lend it to me sometime.
When I was still an adolescent, I saw him die, on a summer holiday.
We are adolescent.
Real adolescent, fashionable pessimism.
Adolescent stars, like the Pleiades are still surrounded by gas and dust.
I mean, here's a study of an adolescent, saddled with children, who falls in love with a criminal.
Since you so graciously allowed me to read your magnum Southern opus, your puling, adolescent self-pity for your poor dead mother.
For her, fame and recognition are empty rewards. and do not live up to the adolescent fantasies. that prompted her ambition.
Adolescent anxiety.
All those bursting adolescent hormones.

News and current affairs

Ratko Mladic, the Serb commander and war criminal, deported the women and children under the eyes of the UN, while capturing and murdering the men and adolescent boys.
If it does, it will be a transforming event of grand strategy, beside which Desert Storm will seem to be just a temper tantrum of a technocratic adolescent with hi-tech toys.
The rising tide of adolescent rage at child marriage and child labor has yet to trend on Twitter and Facebook.
One of America's last competitive cultural exports, it seems, is the post-adolescent male escape fantasy.
That whiff of careening, heedless adolescent fecklessness is part of what makes the archetypal American male presence alarming when he is equipped with a global cudgel.
A prime focus should be on protecting the most vulnerable - adolescent girls.

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