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
With such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding, and interest, and an eternal disposition to fall asleep over the fire and into it, Mr. Smallweed’s grandmother has undoubtedly brightened the family.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
To look back a moment upon the infantine struggles of these young crusaders in the Holy War is to realize afresh how far the race has travelled since that day.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
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 Elizabeth Sheppard
Finally, did she not remember how, on the occasion of the infantine battle between the urchins of Maxey and those of Domremy, her courage, her prompt decisiveness, her enthusiasm changed defeat into victory?
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
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