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
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
The infantine struggle with serpents was a favourite subject.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
It has the simplicity and abandonment of infantine, with the fulness of mature feeling.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
