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

It will be a long time before the infantine public are brought round to Walt Whitman's views on versification.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

With such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding, and interest, and an eternal disposition to fall asleep over the fire and into it, Mr. Smallweed’s grandmother has undoubtedly brightened the family.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)