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

I am afraid that, for you, the season will have no great animation; but you will, I suppose, see a good deal of infantine exhilaration about you....

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

His sports, his rambles in the garden, and the demonstrations of infantine pleasure, were sweet to him.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)