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
That which you call my cause is yet in an infantine state.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake
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
Her delight, indeed, was infantine and unalloyed; for all day long the patriots were declaring that everything was lost, that all was over.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
Now!—Ah, infantine Gorilla, Every small suburban villa With your rising fame will ring; All the sort of folk who bring Buns unto the prisoned bear, To your cage will come, and stare.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 by Various
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