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

His sports, his rambles in the garden, and the demonstrations of infantine pleasure, were sweet to him.

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

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

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