infantine

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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

The creature's name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart�"Spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine Mozart!" as the play's Salieri, his contemporary and rival, calls him.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Wingfield, Lewis

"The House that Jack Built," an infantine production with 4 lines and a chimney, the sort of thing that we all have done as children.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King

During the two years, over which period their travels had extended, her infantine mind had opened considerably; and of that time she preserved many reminiscences.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various