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 infantine note be-132-longs to the cloister and the pulpit.

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

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

But whatever may be the opportunities and capabilities of infantine gymnastics, there is always one way in which fathers may indirectly, but very powerfully, influence their children, and that is through the mother.

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail