infantine
Example Sentences
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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
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
Hargrave's eyes met hers with that look of almost infantine joyousness, which Clair had described as peculiar to him.
From Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel by Emma Newby
"That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers, And the blue eye Dear and dewy, And that infantine fresh air of hers."
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
A little madonna, with almost infantine features, whose breast showed a red heart, pierced with swords, looked at me in a melancholy way from the midst of the branches.
From Annouchka A Tale by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
