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
It struck me he would not be much older, and I had learned to love him too well in his infantine and affecting weakness.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
Until an hour before the coming of Belshazzar, Istar had been alone with the child, believing it to be suffering from some infantine ailment.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
Her delight, indeed, was infantine and unalloyed; for all day long the patriots were declaring that everything was lost, that all was over.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
His sports, his rambles in the garden, and the demonstrations of infantine pleasure, were sweet to him.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
