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

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

This is while its brain is infantine and tender, and its nature restless and altogether sensitive.

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet

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

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.