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

It will be a long time before the infantine public are brought round to Walt Whitman's views on versification.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

It struck me he would not be much older, and I had learned to love him too well in his infantine and affecting weakness.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

By means of the neglected labors of these nameless writers, the style of the fourteenth century, so winning in its infantine grace, was gradually transformed and rendered capable of stronger literary utterance.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington