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

Richard slept undisturbed the sleep of the infantine and just.'

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

I have known an idiot child, perfectly infantine in his general ways, amuse himself half the day long with employing his perceptions of number and quantity.

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet

"That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers, And the blue eye Dear and dewy, And that infantine fresh air of hers."

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie