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 Sheppard, Elizabeth
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 Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
And the little figure, the infantine face, assumed a sudden dignity.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.
But whatever may be the opportunities and capabilities of infantine gymnastics, there is always one way in which fathers may indirectly, but very powerfully, influence their children, and that is through the mother.
From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail
