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

Yet, in your rage for infantine reform, You rushed this most ridiculous enactment— Its earliest victim—your neglected son!

From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by Anstey, F.

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)

I am afraid that, for you, the season will have no great animation; but you will, I suppose, see a good deal of infantine exhilaration about you....

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry