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

I never heard tones so sweet, so infantine.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

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

Once, while playing with some infantine companions, he desired to reach an article that was considerably above their heads.

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