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

To hint at an infantine frailty is scandal; Let bygones be bygones—and somebody knows It was bliss such a Baby to dance and to dandle, Your cheeks were so velvet—so rosy your toes.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane

Until an hour before the coming of Belshazzar, Istar had been alone with the child, believing it to be suffering from some infantine ailment.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

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