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

"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

By means of the neglected labors of these nameless writers, the style of the fourteenth century, so winning in its infantine grace, was gradually transformed and rendered capable of stronger literary utterance.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington