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

"The House that Jack Built," an infantine production with 4 lines and a chimney, the sort of thing that we all have done as children.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King

Until an hour before the coming of Belshazzar, Istar had been alone with the child, believing it to be suffering from some infantine ailment.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

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