infantine
Example Sentences
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Still, is it possible to write about unimaginable cruelty with the infantine levity of a jigsaw puzzle?
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2019
"That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers, And the blue eye Dear and dewy, And that infantine fresh air of hers."
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
Or so forlorn, so helpless, so infantine a fool?
From The Man in Black by Stanley John Weyman
But whatever may be the opportunities and capabilities of infantine gymnastics, there is always one way in which fathers may indirectly, but very powerfully, influence their children, and that is through the mother.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
By means of the neglected labors of these nameless writers, the style of the fourteenth century, so winning in its infantine grace, was gradually transformed and rendered capable of stronger literary utterance.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
