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

And the little figure, the infantine face, assumed a sudden dignity.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

Finally, did she not remember how, on the occasion of the infantine battle between the urchins of Maxey and those of Domremy, her courage, her prompt decisiveness, her enthusiasm changed defeat into victory?

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

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