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juvenile

A juvenile is a young stage in the development of an animal. It applies to animals which have 'direct development' from the egg, not those which undergo metamorphosis. Young male lions which do not have manes, and are not ready for breeding, are juveniles.

juvenile

of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people juvenile diabetes juvenile fashions a young person, not fully developed (= adolescent, jejune, 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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The rise in juvenile delinquency is a serious problem.
That's so juvenile.
The increase in juvenile delinquency is a serious problem.
Juvenile crimes have been increasing recently.
Tom is a juvenile delinquent.

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Get a load of the juvenile.
Not so long ago I'd have considered such a statement juvenile. and rather middle-class.
Juvenile nonsense.
They're liable to have you up in juvenile court for smoking.
We'll send a juvenile officer around.
They're juvenile delinquents.
Juvenile illusion!
You could have gone to juvenile hall.
He works in the juvenile.
He's not in Juvenile Hall.
Alert Juvenile and stand by to send help.
This is Ray Frameck from the Juvenile Division.
That's what makes juvenile delinquents.
Philippe's acting like a juvenile delinquent.
We had the lowest juvenile delinquency rate until two months ago.
They're nobody's fans. They're juvenile delinquents.
He's gonna end up a juvenile delinquent.
Obviously I refer to your ill-judged outburst of juvenile buffoonery.
What you need is a good knife murder, or one of those juvenile gang wars.
The car was taken merely for a joy ride by a juvenile.
My Evelyn - she was a normal juvenile delinquent until she got a breakdown.
With your ancient, juvenile minds, you have developed explosives too fast for your minds to conceive what you were doing.
Juvenile hall for you.
Go over to the juvenile hall and they will give you your release papers.
Not so long ago I'd have considered such a statement juvenile. and rather middle-class. Now I can say it without a stammer, without a blush.
It's not my duty to do anything but see that the juvenile wards Of the state of California are given decent homes.
With your ancient, juvenile minds, you have developed explosives too fast for your minds to conceive what you were doing. You are on the verge of destroying the entire universe.
But the juvenile minds which you possess will not comprehend its strength, until it's too late.
Anselmo Foresi, Volume 1, juvenile poetry.

News and current affairs

Was poverty the cause of his juvenile offenses in Romania and his crime in Italy?
But the Chancellor's juvenile experiment in mature diplomacy has diminished, not expanded, Germany's prestige.
The problem of juvenile gangs in Central America is not new.

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