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

This is while its brain is infantine and tender, and its nature restless and altogether sensitive.

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet

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 Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

I have known an idiot child, perfectly infantine in his general ways, amuse himself half the day long with employing his perceptions of number and quantity.

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet