Words similar to adolescent

Example sentences for: adolescent

How can you use “adolescent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

What is frustrating about the current crusade to rein in teen-agers, though, is that it seems so, well, adolescent.
That acknowledgment having been made, I find myself continually irritated by their cavalier dismissal of everything that human beings developed in the course of history: it reflects an adolescent mentality that is scornful of anything that might have taken place before these parvenu geniuses put finger to keyboard.
Now the reviews of the exhibit are in, and although most critics defend the museum's right to exhibit what it wants, few defend the art : "Appallingly witless and stupid" (Hilton Kramer, the New York Observer ). Terry Teachout calls it "strictly adolescent stuff" that reveals that "British artists ...
The Capeman , the story of an adolescent Puerto Rican killer, is having a hard time taking off.
Yet the movie sets up the basic theme of Hughes' subsequent--and I would maintain all successful--teen movies, which is to overthrow the stereotypes that comprise the basis of adolescent identity.