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

Hargrave's eyes met hers with that look of almost infantine joyousness, which Clair had described as peculiar to him.

From Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel by Newby, Emma

"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

I never heard tones so sweet, so infantine.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth