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

Sure, now that they held the necessary document, their task was of the most infantine simplicity.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

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

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