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

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 Sheppard, Elizabeth

The idea is an infantine one, possible of entertainment only in the initial state of human knowledge.

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

The infantine struggle with serpents was a favourite subject.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various