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

A little madonna, with almost infantine features, whose breast showed a red heart, pierced with swords, looked at me in a melancholy way from the midst of the branches.

From Annouchka A Tale by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich

Now!—Ah, infantine Gorilla, Every small suburban villa With your rising fame will ring; All the sort of folk who bring Buns unto the prisoned bear, To your cage will come, and stare.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 by Various

I went to the door and knocked—no answer—“Oes neb yn y tŷ?” said I. “Oes!” said an infantine voice.

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry