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 idea is an infantine one, possible of entertainment only in the initial state of human knowledge.

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

But whatever may be the opportunities and capabilities of infantine gymnastics, there is always one way in which fathers may indirectly, but very powerfully, influence their children, and that is through the mother.

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail

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

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.