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 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

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

And the little figure, the infantine face, assumed a sudden dignity.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.