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
Yet, in your rage for infantine reform, You rushed this most ridiculous enactment— Its earliest victim—your neglected son!
From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by F. Anstey
Richard slept undisturbed the sleep of the infantine and just.'
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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
"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 Mary King Waddington
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